Words and phrases that have a meaning related to obfuscation: (123 results)
Often used in the same context:
prevarication, dissembling, doublespeak, mendacity, subterfuge, circumlocution, evasions, sophistry, duplicity, bafflegab, dissimulation, deceit, underhandedness, weasel words, deceptions, evasiveness, deviousness, demagoguery, falsehood, illogic, stonewalling, nefariousness, opaqueness, pedantry, semantics, disingenuousness, doubletalk, chicanery, disinformation, gobbledygook, sophistical, speciousness, hypocrisy, obtuseness, tendentiousness, prolixity, ambiguity, flummery, incompetence, pusillanimity, disingenuity, hyperbole, mystification, cravenness, inanity, hackery, unaccountability, perfidy, tautologies, indirectness, doublethink, newspeak, bureaucratese, cajolery, insincerity, inexactitude, hairsplitting, baldfaced, secretiveness, untruth, dumbness, journalese, humbug, revisionism, verbiage, bamboozlement, buncombe, euphemisms, dishonesty, casuistry, sophistic, mumbo jumbo, misdirection, insidiousness, obstructionism, opportunism, incoherence, legalese, jargon, denial, incoherency, bloviation, innuendo, vagueness, puffery, ineffectuality, clownishness, deceptiveness, intransigence, idiocy, tu quoque, venality, stupidity, untrustworthiness, shamelessness, posturing, gobbledegook, ignorance, corruptness, dubiousness, logical fallacy, equivocation, legerdemain, confusion, sleight, evasion, niceties, arbitrariness, quibbling, sophistication, imprecision, rationalization, confusions, deception, disinterest, muddle
More general:
disarray, mental confusion
Synonyms:
Also try:bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, bewilderment, puzzlement
— Adjectives for obfuscation: deliberate, such, ideological, mental, bureaucratic, much, further, intentional, general, semantic, more, more...
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