BLURRINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blurriness mean? 

• BLURRINESS (noun)
  The noun BLURRINESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines

  Familiarity information: BLURRINESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLURRINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

blurriness; fogginess; fuzziness; indistinctness; softness

Hypernyms ("blurriness" 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 "blurriness"):

dimness; faintness (the quality of being dim or lacking contrast)

vagueness (indistinctness of shape or character)

Derivation:

blurry (indistinct or hazy in outline)

 Context examples 

The Human Connectome Project (HCP) team set out to banish this blurriness by using multiple, precisely aligned, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) modalities to measure cortical architecture, activity, connectivity, and topography in a group of 210 healthy participants.

(Connectome map more than doubles human cortex’s known regions, NIH)