MURKINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does murkiness mean? 

• MURKINESS (noun)
  The noun MURKINESS has 2 senses:

1. an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance

2. the quality of being cloudy

  Familiarity information: MURKINESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MURKINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

fog; fogginess; murk; murkiness

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being cloudy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

cloudiness; muddiness; murkiness

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)