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Inconspicuousness

noun
1.
The quality of being not easily seen.





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"Inconspicuousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... white-pine beams which had known many decades of snowy winters—none of these were obtrusive. The first had passed into oblivion, the second had been seasoned by sun and rain, papered by lichens, and gnawed and bored by tiny wood-folk into a neutral inconspicuousness as complete as an Indian's deserted benab. The wide verandah was open on all sides, and from the bamboos of the front compound one looked straight through the central hall-way to bamboos at the back. It seemed like a happy accident ...
— Edge of the Jungle • William Beebe
... to live with Asensio and his wife [the letter went on]. Imagine it! A bohio, hidden away far up the Yumuri, and so insignificant as to escape attention. We are no longer people of consequence or authority; our safety depends upon our inconspicuousness. We hide as do the timid animals, though nature has not given us their skill in avoiding danger. I do not like the wilderness; it frightens me. At night I hear things rustling through the thatch above my head; in the morning my feet touch a bare earthen floor. We live on ...
— Rainbow's End • Rex Beach


Words linked to "Inconspicuousness" :   invisibility, unnoticeableness, invisibleness, conspicuousness, unobtrusiveness, inconspicuous


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