oscuridad
Spanish, noun/oskuɾiˈdad/
oscuridad is spelled O-S-C-U-R-I-D-A-D (9 letters) and appears 20 times per million words in written Spanish, the 3,991st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Oscuridad is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “darkness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Falta de claridad o de luz que dificulta la visibilidad de las cosas”.
What does oscuridad mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedarkness
- 2
feminineobscurity
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Falta de claridad o de luz que dificulta la visibilidad de las cosas. 2. Carencia de claridad en lo hablado o escrito. 3. Carencia de información sobre una noticia, sus causas y circunstancias. 4. Falta de precisión en las ideas, ya sea por escasez de conocimiento, de inteligencia o por confusión.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of oscuridad
- oscuridades plural
- obscuridad alternative
- escuridad alternative dialectal obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce oscuridad?
- /oskuɾiˈdad/
- [os.ku.ɾiˈð̞að̞]
- [oskuɾiˈð̞að̞]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to oscuridad
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is oscuridad in Spanish?
oscuridad appears 20 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).