CLOUDINESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The quality of being cloudy

Synonyms:

cloudiness; muddiness; murkiness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("cloudiness" 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 "cloudiness"):

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:

cloudy ((of liquids) clouded as with sediment)

cloudy (lacking definite form or limits)

Meaning:

Gloomy semidarkness caused by cloud cover

Synonyms:

cloudiness; overcast

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

semidarkness (partial darkness)

Meaning:

The state of the sky when it is covered by clouds

Synonyms:

cloud cover; cloudiness; overcast

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

bad weather; inclemency; inclementness (weather unsuitable for outdoor activities)

Derivation:

cloudy (full of or covered with clouds)