INDISTINCTNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does indistinctness mean? 

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

1. the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDISTINCTNESS (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 ("indistinctness" 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 "indistinctness"):

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

vagueness (indistinctness of shape or character)

Antonym:

distinctness (the quality of being sharp and clear)

Derivation:

indistinct (not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand)

 Context examples 

Emma remained in a state of vexation too; but there was more indistinctness in the causes of her's, than in his.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

How absurd to be resuming the agitation which such an interval had banished into distance and indistinctness!

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)