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
1

n an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance

Synonyms:
fog, fogginess, murk
Types:
fug
(British informal) an airless smoky smelly atmosphere
Type of:
atmosphere, atmospheric state
the weather or climate at some place

n the quality of being cloudy

Synonyms:
cloudiness, muddiness
Types:
turbidity, turbidness
muddiness created by stirring up sediment or having foreign particles suspended
haziness, mistiness, steaminess, vaporousness, vapourousness
cloudiness resulting from haze or mist or vapor
Type of:
opacity, opaqueness
the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light

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