Opacity

Definitions

1. The state or quality of being opaque, not allowing light to pass through.
   uncountable
2. The state or quality of being inaccessible to understanding.
   uncountable
3. A measure of relative impenetrability to electromagnetic radiation such as light.
   countable
4. An opaque area.
   countable

Equivalents

Examples

“We could not see⟳ the sandbar due to the opacity of the muddy water.”

“The opacity of these decisions is troubling.”

“The opacity of a clean⟳ glass window is near zero.”

“This report⟳ concerns a child with Down's syndrome (mongolism) and bilateral congenital corneal opacities born into a family affected through three generations by Rieger's anomaly.”

“Scanty irregular opacities are not uncommonly observed on the chest roentgenogram in the absence of interstitial fibrosis of the lungs.”

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