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obfuscation
Obfuscation is the obscuring of intended meaning in communication, making the message confusing, willfully ambiguous, or harder to understand. It may be intentional or unintentional (although the former is usually connoted) and may result from circumlocution (yielding wordiness) or from use of jargon or even argot (yielding economy of words but excluding outsiders from the communicative value). Unintended obfuscation in expository writing is usually a natural trait of early drafts in the writing process, when the composition is not yet advanced, and it can be improved with critical thinking and revising, either by the writer or by another person with sufficient reading comprehension and editing skills.
The name comes from Latin ''obfuscatio'', from ''obfuscāre'' ("to darken"). Obfustication is a common variant of the name, especially in British English. Synonyms include ''beclouding'' and ''abstrusity''. Obscurantism is intentional obscurity, whether by withholding communication, obfuscating it, or both.
==Background==
Obfuscation may be used for many purposes. Doctors have been accused of using jargon to conceal unpleasant facts from a patient; American author Michael Crichton claimed that medical writing is a "highly skilled, calculated attempt to confuse the reader".〔(Appendix 25 - Medspeak )〕 B. F. Skinner, noted psychologist, commented on medical notation as a form of multiple audience control, which allows the doctor to communicate to the pharmacist things which might be opposed by the patient if they could understand it.〔Skinner, B.F. (1957) ''Verbal Behavior'' p.232〕
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