murkiness
Murkiness is a quality of being foggy or muddy. You may note the murkiness of a pond and, fearing leeches (or sea monsters), decide not to swim with your friends.
Your sailboat might cut through the murkiness of a foggy bay, and an alligator hunter might brave a swamp's murkiness. Figuratively, murkiness can mean a state of being unclear, sometimes deliberately: "The murkiness of those back-room deals makes me very distrustful of the whole organization." Murkiness comes from the noun murk, "darkness that makes it difficult to see."
Definitions of murkiness
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an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance
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types:
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fug
(British informal) an airless smoky smelly atmosphere
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type of:
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atmosphere, atmospheric state
the weather or climate at some place
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fug
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the quality of being cloudy
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synonyms:
cloudiness, muddiness
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types:
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turbidity, turbidness
muddiness created by stirring up sediment or having foreign particles suspended
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haziness, mistiness, steaminess, vaporousness, vapourousness
cloudiness resulting from haze or mist or vapor
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type of:
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opacity, opaqueness
the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light
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turbidity, turbidness
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