English Dictionary

obnubilation

IPA（発音記号）

/ɒbnjuːbɪˈleɪʃən/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 特定用法 直訳 稀用

The action of darkening or fact of being darkened, as with a cloud; obscuration. / (medicine, specifically) Obscuration or clouding of the mind or faculties.

日本語の意味

物事が暗くなる、曇ること、もしくは、心や精神がはっきりしなくなる状態（思考や意識の濁り）

The sudden obnubilation of the sky foreshadowed the storm, leaving the picnic guests scrambling for cover.

空が急に暗くなることが嵐の前触れとなり、ピクニックの参加者たちは慌てて避難した。

意味（1）

The action of darkening or fact of being darkened, as with a cloud; obscuration.

Neither can the Moone be eclipſed but at her ful, and in her fartheſt poſture from the ſunne: then is ſhe proſtitute to obnubilation.

意味（2）

(medicine, specifically) Obscuration or clouding of the mind or faculties.

An hypochondriack obnubilation from wind and indigeſtion.

意味（3）

(rare, literally) A veiling with or concealment in clouds.

Homer, the father of the Poets, by these obnubilations, frequently rescues his heroes from the most imminent danger. Thus, in the third book of The Iliad, when Paris, defeated by Menelaus, is on the point of losing his life, Venus snatches him away in a fog: — // “Then, as once more he lifts the deadly dart, // In thirst of vengeance, at his rival’s heart, // The Queen of Love her fav’rite champion shrouds // (For Gods can all things) in a veil of clouds.”

意味（4）

Something that obscures or causes confoundment; an obfuscation.

Pound’s ugly invective about the “obnubilations” of Indian art.

obnubilations （ plural ）