Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or quality of being turbid; turbidity.

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  • noun The quality or state of being turbid; muddiness; foulness.

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  • noun The state or condition of being turbid.

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  • noun muddiness created by stirring up sediment or having foreign particles suspended

Etymologies

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turbid +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • It possesses a slight degree of turbidness, and is esteemed for this property, which is considered to give it a retiring quality.

    Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

  • Yet, in the midst of the turbidness of adolescence, I was still two distinct personalities.

    Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922

  • Yet, in the midst of the turbidness of adolescence, I was still two distinct personalities.

    Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Harry Kemp 1921

  • In the second experiment turbidness was still produced by a solution of nitrate of silver in the tube containing the acid, but it was less distinct; in the third process it was barely perceptible; and in the fourth process the two fluids remained perfectly clear after the mixture.

    A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences 1904

  • He threw a glance at it, and, without lifting his head from the stone, again let both his eyes rest fixedly on something -- both motionless, both veiled in a strange whitish turbidness, both as though blind and yet terribly alert.

    The Crushed Flower and Other Stories Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev 1895

  • Page view page image: this paper, it is wonderful that it was not spiritually distilled; that its essence did not arise, purified from all alloy of falsehood, from all turbidness of obscurity and ambiguity, and from a pure essence of truth and invigorating motive, if of any it were capable.

    Septimius Felton, or, The elixir of life 1872

  • If nitrate of silver, specific gravity 1.200 be added to ferro-tartaric acid, specific gravity 1.023, a precipitate falls, which is in a great measure redissolved by a gentle heat, leaving a black sediment, which, being cleared by subsidence, a liquid of a pale yellow color is obtained, in which the further addition of the nitrate causes no turbidness.

    History and Practice of the Art of Photography Henry Hunt Snelling 1856

  • With such intense action of mind as he brought to bear on this paper, it is wonderful that it was not spiritually distilled; that its essence did not arise, purified from all alloy of falsehood, from all turbidness of obscurity and ambiguity, and form a pure essence of truth and invigorating motive, if of any it were capable.

    Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • I think it will never be so disagreeable to me hereafter, now that I find this turbidness to be its native color, and not (like that of the Thames) accruing from city sewers or any impurities of the lowlands.

    Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • I think it will never be so disagreeable to me hereafter, now that I find this turbidness to be its native color, and not (like that of the Thames) accruing from city sewers or any impurities of the lowlands.

    Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 1. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

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