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n. (plural of obscurity English)
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Obscurities is a compilation album by Stephin Merritt released in 2011 on Merge Records, consisting of B-sides, compilations cuts, and various other previously unreleased material. According to Metacritic, it received generally positive reviews, with a weighted average of 74 out of 100. The most positive review came from Robert Christgau, who wrote that he was "swept off [his] feet by Merritt thoughtfully intoning some little green men's "Song From Venus.""
Usage examples of "obscurities".
Tin barely makes it into the top fifty, eclipsed by such relative obscurities as praseodymium, samarium, gadolinium, and dysprosium.
They formed in all their contradictions and obscurities an invincible and humanitarian creed, which he confessed rather than preached, with an obstinate gentleness, a smile of pacific assurance on his lips, and his candid blue eyes cast down because the sight of faces troubled his inspiration developed in solitude.