How to say "obscurity" in Japanese

• 不遇ふぐうCommon
  na-adjective, no-adjectiveObscurity as a person's misfortune: someone dogged by ill fate or bad luck, whose obscurity is part of that misfortune. Fits an unlucky life in which one's worth goes unrecognized.
  彼女かのじょはわが身みの不遇ふぐうにじっと耐たえねばならなかった。↗

  She had to smile at her misfortune.
• 下積みしたづみCommon
  no-adjectiveObscurity as a lowly position: being stuck at the bottom of the ladder, unnoticed and unable to rise. The emphasis is on the lowly place itself rather than on luck.
  彼かれの一生いっしょうは社会しゃかいの下積したづみで終おわった。↗

  He lived and died in obscurity.
• 不透明ふとうめいCommon
  nounObscurity as opacity: the quality of not being transparent. Use it of situations or motives that are hard to see through; it is not the word for a person's obscure fortunes or low standing.

For obscurity as a person's misfortune use 不遇; for being stuck at the bottom in a lowly position use 「下積み」; for opacity — something not transparent, hard to see through — use 不透明.

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• 不遇ふぐうmisfortune
• 隠微いんびobscurity
• 微賤びせんlow rank
• 忘却の彼方ぼうきゃくのかなたdustbin of history
• 下積みしたづみlowly position
• 不透明ふとうめいopacity