INDISTINCTNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines

Synonyms:

blurriness; fogginess; fuzziness; indistinctness; softness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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)