Meaning of OPACITY
| Pronunciation: | | owp'asutee
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- [n] the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light
- [n] incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning
- [n] the phenomenon of not permitting the passage of electromagnetic radiation
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| | Synonyms: | | opaqueness |
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| | Antonyms: | | clarity, clearness, transparence, transparency, uncloudedness | | |
| | See Also: | | blurriness, cloudiness, fogginess, fuzziness, incomprehensibility, indistinctness, muddiness, murkiness, optical opacity, physical phenomenon, quality, radio-opacity, radiopacity | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \O*pac"i*ty\, n. [L. opacitas: cf.F. opacit['e].]
1. The state of being opaque; the quality of a body which
renders it impervious to the rays of light; want of
transparency; opaqueness.
2. Obscurity; want of clearness. --Bp. Hall.
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| | Related Terms: | | abstruseness, adiaphanousness, ambiguity, amorphousness, asininity, blockishness, boobishness, boorishness, bovinity, cloddishness, cloudiness, crassness, crudeness, dark, darkness, denseness, density, dimness, dim-wittedness, doltishness, dullardism, dullness, dull-wittedness, dumbness, duncery, equivocation, fog, fogginess, fuzziness, grossness, hebetude, impenetrability, impermeability, imperviousness to light, indefiniteness, indeterminateness, indistinctness, intransparency, lethargy, loutishness, lumpishness, mist, mistiness, mumbo jumbo, murk, murkiness, mystification, ninnyism, oafdom, oafishness, obfuscation, obscurantism, obscuration, obscurity, obtuseness, opaque, opaqueness, perplexity, reconditeness, roil, roiledness, shapelessness, simpletonianism, slowness, sluggishness, sottishness, stolidity, stupidity, thick-headedness, thickness, thick-wittedness, turbidity, turbidness, unclarity, unclearness, unintelligibility, unplainness, unteachability, vagueness, wrongheadedness, yokelism |
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