oscuridad

• obscuridad
• escuridad (dialectal or obsolete)

Inherited from Old Spanish escuridat, oscuridat, semi-learned borrowing from Latin obscūritātem, from obscūrus (“dark”). Cognate with English obscurity.

• IPA^(key): /oskuɾiˈdad/ [os.ku.ɾiˈð̞að̞]

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• Rhymes: -ad
• Syllabification: os‧cu‧ri‧dad

oscuridad f (plural oscuridades)

1. darkness
2. obscurity

• “oscuridad”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024