Opacity

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Opacity \O*pac"i*ty\, n. [L. opacitas: cf. F. opacit['e].]
     1. The state of being opaque; the quality of a body which
        renders it impervious to the rays of light; want of
        transparency; opaqueness.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. Obscurity; want of clearness. --Bp. Hall.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  opacity
       n 1: the phenomenon of not permitting the passage of
            electromagnetic radiation [ant: {transparency}]
       2: incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning
          [syn: {opaqueness}]
       3: the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which
          something reduces the passage of light [syn: {opaqueness}]
          [ant: {clearness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  81 Moby Thesaurus words for "opacity":
     abstruseness, adiaphanousness, ambiguity, amorphousness, asininity,
     blockishness, boobishness, boorishness, bovinity, cloddishness,
     cloudiness, crassness, crudeness, dark, darkness, denseness,
     density, dim-wittedness, dimness, doltishness, dull-wittedness,
     dullardism, dullness, dumbness, duncery, equivocation, fog,
     fogginess, fuzziness, grossness, hebetude, impenetrability,
     impermeability, imperviousness to light, indefiniteness,
     indeterminateness, indistinctness, intransparency, lethargy,
     loutishness, lumpishness, mist, mistiness, mumbo jumbo, murk,
     murkiness, mystification, ninnyism, oafdom, oafishness,
     obfuscation, obscurantism, obscuration, obscurity, obtuseness,
     opaque, opaqueness, perplexity, reconditeness, roil, roiledness,
     shapelessness, simpletonianism, slowness, sluggishness,
     sottishness, stolidity, stupidity, thick-headedness,
     thick-wittedness, thickness, turbidity, turbidness, unclarity,
     unclearness, unintelligibility, unplainness, unteachability,
     vagueness, wrongheadedness, yokelism