opaqueness
opaquenesses
Opaqueness is the characteristic of being either difficult to see through or hard to understand. The opaqueness of a passing car's windows means that you can't see who's driving, while the opaqueness of a poem makes it hard to figure out the poem's meaning.
When light can't shine through an object, or can just partially penetrate it, that's due to opaqueness, which you can also call opacity. When something is obscure or impossible to comprehend, that's another type of opaqueness. The opaqueness of that 1,000-page novel you've been trying to slog through might require you to keep looking words up in the dictionary as you go.
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the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light
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synonyms:
opacity
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Antonyms:
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clarity, clearness, uncloudedness
the quality of being transparent or clear
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cloudiness, muddiness, murkiness
the quality of being cloudy
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blurriness, fogginess, fuzziness, indistinctness, softness
the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines
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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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dimness, faintness
the quality of being dim or lacking contrast
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vagueness
indistinctness of shape or character
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type of:
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quality
an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
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clarity, clearness, uncloudedness
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incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning
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synonyms:
opacity
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incomprehensibility
the quality of being incomprehensible
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incomprehensibility
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