MISTINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mistiness mean? 

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

1. cloudiness resulting from haze or mist or vapor

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISTINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cloudiness resulting from haze or mist or vapor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

haziness; mistiness; steaminess; vaporousness; vapourousness

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

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

Derivation:

misty (filled or abounding with fog or mist)

misty (wet with mist)

 Context examples 

As the evening fell it began to get very cold, and the growing twilight seemed to merge into one dark mistiness the gloom of the trees, oak, beech, and pine, though in the valleys which ran deep between the spurs of the hills, as we ascended through the Pass, the dark firs stood out here and there against the background of late-lying snow.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)