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Opacity has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

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Noun
1

the phenomenon of not permitting the passage of electromagnetic radiation

"The heavy storm clouds created such total opacity that not a single ray of sunlight managed to penetrate through to the ground below."

2

incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning

"The professor's lecture was filled with such opacity that even the most attentive students left confused by his jargon-heavy explanations."

3

the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light

"The opacity of the storm clouds made it impossible for even a sliver of sunlight to reach the ground."

4

The state or quality of being opaque, not allowing light to pass through

"The heavy fog created a complete opacity over the valley, making it impossible to see more than a few feet ahead."

Related Terms
Antonyms
transparence uncloudedness
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
physical phenomenon incomprehensibility quality
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
optical opacity radiopacity cloudiness indistinctness
Rhyming Words
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