OPAQUENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does opaqueness mean? 

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

1. incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning

2. the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light

  Familiarity information: OPAQUENESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OPAQUENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

opacity; opaqueness

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

incomprehensibility (the quality of being incomprehensible)

Derivation:

opaque (hard or impossible to understand)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

opacity; opaqueness

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

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Attribute:

opaque (not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "opaqueness"):

cloudiness; muddiness; murkiness (the quality of being cloudy)

blurriness; fogginess; fuzziness; indistinctness; softness (the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines)

Derivation:

opaque (not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight)

 Context examples 

Issue associated with an undesirable opaqueness or cloudiness.

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