Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being murky; darkness; gloominess; gloom.
Wiktionary
- n. The state or quality of being murky.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state of being murky.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance
- n. the quality of being cloudy
Etymologies
- murky + -ness (Wiktionary)
Examples
“You stated: "Anyone with any knowledge of turbity knows that water murkiness is not a measure of water cleanliness.”
“Anyone with any knowledge of turbity knows that water murkiness is not a measure of water cleanliness.”
“But I am starting to think that maybe the murkiness is the message.”
“The "murkiness" of a hedge fund, he says, makes investors feel that it is "the inherent domain of people who know more than we do.”
The Wall Street Journal: How Bernie Madoff Made Smart Folks Look Dumb
“FATTAH: Well, I think the most important thing, really, is moving the political process much faster, letting Iraqis take more control of more of the country and letting it be seen and understood and not having any kind of murkiness in the process.”
“While water can not be carried, poured or placed as a material in new levels, it can be tweaked in a number of ways; you can add waves at different levels, so it can appear like a rolling ocean or a still lake, it's color can be tweaked, as can its "murkiness," and the amount of "confetti" that appears in it.”
“You don't cry over spilt milk and you don't weep over a Florida International University head coach who sees his Knicks moonlighting gig torpedoed by grinches at the NBA who had the audacity to consider the ethical murkiness of his strange, job-splitting arrangement.”
The Wall Street Journal: Isiah Goes Hither, The Knicks Go Yon
“To some extent one goes to him precisely for that quality of indeterminacy, which he uses to advance a very singular vision of the intractable murkiness of human affairs.”
“The murkiness over the fate of Fastweb was solved only after a Lent of passion, right before Easter, when prosecutors withdrew their request to appoint a Fastweb commissioner.”
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