CLOUDINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cloudiness mean? 

• CLOUDINESS (noun)
  The noun CLOUDINESS has 3 senses:

1. the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds

2. gloomy semidarkness caused by cloud cover

3. the quality of being cloudy

  Familiarity information: CLOUDINESS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLOUDINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of the sky when it is covered by clouds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

cloud cover; cloudiness; overcast

Hypernyms ("cloudiness" is a kind of...):

bad weather; inclemency; inclementness (weather unsuitable for outdoor activities)

Derivation:

cloudy (full of or covered with clouds)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Gloomy semidarkness caused by cloud cover

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

cloudiness; overcast

Hypernyms ("cloudiness" is a kind of...):

semidarkness (partial darkness)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The quality of being cloudy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

cloudiness; muddiness; murkiness

Hypernyms ("cloudiness" 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 "cloudiness"):

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:

cloudy ((of liquids) clouded as with sediment)

cloudy (lacking definite form or limits)

 Context examples 

Issue associated with an undesirable opaqueness or cloudiness.

(Opacification of Medical Device Material, Food and Drug Administration)

I think that through the cloudiness of his insanity he saw some antagonism in me, for he at once fell back on the last refuge of such as he—a dogged silence.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

During an El Niño phase, the eastern side of South America experiences extra rain and cloudiness, which leads to above-normal yields for maize and soybean but also an increased risk of diseases in wheat varieties.

(El Niño linked to widespread crop failures, SciDev.Net)

Decreased cloudiness allowed more solar radiation to reach the plants, which typically promotes photosynthesis, but in this case it likely posed an extra stress on the plants from the resulting depletion of soil moisture.

(NASA finds drought may take toll on Congo rainforest, NASA)