obfuscation

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The act of obfuscating or obscuring; also, that which obscures; obscurity; confusion.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The act of darkening or bewildering; the state of being darkened.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun uncountable 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.
• noun uncountable Confusion, bewilderment, or a baffled state resulting from something obfuscated, or made more opaque and muddled with the intent to obscure information.
• noun countable A single instance of intentionally obscuring the meaning of something to make it more difficult to grasp.
• noun computing, uncountable The option to alter computer code, preserving its behavior but concealing its structure and intent.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered
• noun confusion resulting from failure to understand
• noun darkening or obscuring the sight of something