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The art of hiding nothing by showing everything except the part that matters.
means The quality of being impossible to see through, understand, or get clear information from.
from From Latin opacus, 'shaded' or 'dark,' the same root that gives us 'opaque.' The Latin word likely traces back to a base meaning 'to shade' or 'cover over' — the sense of blocking light slid smoothly into blocking understanding, so a fog-dark window and a fog-dark explanation ended up cousins in meaning.
- opposite of
- transparency, its more photogenic cousin
- in design
- 0% means invisible, 100% means honest
- in institutions
- often a feature, rarely admitted as one