FUZZINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fuzziness mean? 

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

1. the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FUZZINESS (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 ("fuzziness" 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 "fuzziness"):

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

vagueness (indistinctness of shape or character)

Derivation:

fuzzy (indistinct or hazy in outline)