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MURKINESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being cloudy
Synonyms:
cloudiness; muddiness; murkiness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("murkiness" is a kind of...):
opacity; opaqueness (the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "murkiness"):
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)
Derivation:
murky ((of liquids) clouded as with sediment)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance
Synonyms:
fog; fogginess; murk; murkiness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("murkiness" is a kind of...):
atmosphere; atmospheric state (the weather or climate at some place)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "murkiness"):
fug ((British informal) an airless smoky smelly atmosphere)
Derivation:
murky (dark or gloomy)
