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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Opacity

	Opacity \O*pac"i*ty\, n. [L. opacitas: cf. F. opacit['e].]
   1. The state of being opaque; the quality of a body which
      renders it impervious to the rays of light; want of
      transparency; opaqueness.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Obscurity; want of clearness. --Bp. Hall.
      [1913 Webster]

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
Opacity

	opacity
     n 1: the phenomenon of not permitting the passage of
          electromagnetic radiation [ant: transparency]
     2: incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning
        [syn: opaqueness]
     3: the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which
        something reduces the passage of light [syn: opaqueness]
        [ant: clearness]

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Opacity

	81 Moby Thesaurus words for "opacity":
   abstruseness, adiaphanousness, ambiguity, amorphousness, asininity,
   blockishness, boobishness, boorishness, bovinity, cloddishness,
   cloudiness, crassness, crudeness, dark, darkness, denseness,
   density, dim-wittedness, dimness, doltishness, dull-wittedness,
   dullardism, dullness, dumbness, duncery, equivocation, fog,
   fogginess, fuzziness, grossness, hebetude, impenetrability,
   impermeability, imperviousness to light, indefiniteness,
   indeterminateness, indistinctness, intransparency, lethargy,
   loutishness, lumpishness, mist, mistiness, mumbo jumbo, murk,
   murkiness, mystification, ninnyism, oafdom, oafishness,
   obfuscation, obscurantism, obscuration, obscurity, obtuseness,
   opaque, opaqueness, perplexity, reconditeness, roil, roiledness,
   shapelessness, simpletonianism, slowness, sluggishness,
   sottishness, stolidity, stupidity, thick-headedness,
   thick-wittedness, thickness, turbidity, turbidness, unclarity,
   unclearness, unintelligibility, unplainness, unteachability,
   vagueness, wrongheadedness, yokelism

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