Synonyms for obfuscation
ob·fus·ca·tion

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1. bewilderment, obfuscation, puzzlement, befuddlement, mystification, bafflement, bemusementnoun

   confusion resulting from failure to understand

   Synonyms:
   bemusement, mystification, bafflement, puzzlement, bewilderment, befuddlement

2. mystification, obfuscationnoun

   the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered

   Synonyms:
   bewilderment, mystification, bafflement, puzzlement, bemusement, befuddlement

3. obfuscationnoun

   darkening or obscuring the sight of something

   Synonyms:
   bewilderment, bafflement, puzzlement, mystification, bemusement, befuddlement

Matched Categories

1. • Activity
   • Blackening
   • Confusion

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1. List of paraphrases for "obfuscation":

   obscuration, confusion, cover-up

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1. Charles Krauthammer:

   Refusal to answer questions. No supreme court nominee answers questions who has any hope of getting on the court, the whole idea is not just to be calm and collected and knowledgeable, but to be nimble, he added. This is an exercise in obfuscation.

2. James Scott:

   In an age of dynamic malware obfuscation through operations such as mutating hash, a hyper-evolving threat landscape, and technologically next generation adversaries, offensive campaigns have an overwhelming advantage over defensive strategies.

3. Ray Zaccaro:

   Before Senator Merkley demanded to see these facilities, they were shrouded in secrecy and Americans had no idea the extent to which the Administration's zero tolerance policy led to the incarceration of children and separation from their families, given their track record of obfuscation, it's not surprising to learn HHS has found public disclosure inconvenient.

4. Mark Heywood:

   It was a lost decade. We blew the years 2000 to 2008 with political obfuscation.

5. Christoph Mueller:

   My experience is it's very difficult to create a winning team from existing management, there's nowhere more obfuscation than in the boardroom at the beginning of a turnaround.