Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being cloudy or clouded.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being cloudy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
cloudy (e.g. weather). - noun The property of being
murky (e.g. liquid, style). - noun The property of being
obscure (e.g. information).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds
- noun gloomy semidarkness caused by cloud cover
- noun the quality of being cloudy
Etymologies
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Examples
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Perception cloudiness is the only hope we have to forego the greatest economic disaster since the Black Death.
How Lavish Should the Inauguration Be? - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Perception cloudiness is the only hope we have to forego the greatest economic disaster since the Black Death.
How Lavish Should the Inauguration Be? - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Eventually the cloudiness is such that you can't see through it anymore.
Borg Eyes 2006
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Various explanations need to be explored: reduced positive feedback from WV; increase in cloudiness; anthropogenic aerosols; man-made land changes; increasing air traffic; solar variations influencing climate.
Think Progress » FACT CHECK: National Review’s Cover Story Distorts Facts On Global Warming 2006
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Eventually the cloudiness is such that you can't see through it anymore.
SeeLight: 2006
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It is important that investors do not lose sight of Adobe's long-term success in the midst of some short-term cloudiness.
unknown title 2011
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It is claimed that the observed changes in radiation budget are caused by changes in the mean tropical cloudiness, which is detected in the satellite observations but fails to be predicted by several current climate models.
HAnsen and Schmidt: Predicting the Past – Continued « Climate Audit 2006
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"All these things I change turn off the 'cloudiness' of it," Staten says.
Daily IT Newswire 2010
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I prefer this term rather than "cloudiness," partly because the latter has other connotations, but also because there is an "attitude" component: is the system at home in the cloud, or has it been shoehorned to work there?
Feld Thoughts 2008
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Sadly, I was not able to attend, but I am pleased to see that judging from the increasing "cloudiness" of the photos taken as the service progressed, an entirely appropriate amount of incense was used at the service: -)
The Garden Window Elizabeth @ The Garden Window 2010
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