obfuscation

Meaning

Noun

• The act or process of obfuscating, or obscuring the perception of something; the concept of concealing the meaning of a communication by making it more confusing and harder to interpret.
• Confusion, bewilderment, or a baffled state resulting from something obfuscated, or made more opaque and muddled with the intent to obscure information.
• A single instance of intentionally obscuring the meaning of something to make it more difficult to grasp.

Origin

• From Latin obfuscatio (15th century), from obfuscāre, from ob + fuscāre, from fuscus.