Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality or condition of being muddy: turbidness; foulness caused by mud, dirt, or sediment: as, the muddiness of a stream.
  • noun Obscurity; want of perspicuity.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The condition or quality of being muddy; turbidness; foulness caused by mud, dirt, or sediment.
  • noun Obscurity or confusion, as in treatment of a subject; intellectual dullness.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun the characteristic of being muddy

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior
  • noun the wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water
  • noun the quality of being cloudy

Etymologies

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muddy +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • A: That muddiness is part of the article he’s writing — nobody had any idea what these things were.

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  • A: That muddiness is part of the article he’s writing — nobody had any idea what these things were.

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  • The girls also believe that most people will fall somewhere along a sliding scale of "muddiness" and "towniness" and devised a tongue-in-cheek Muddy Quiz to enable visitors to calculate their so-called Muddy-Townie Ratio.

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  • The girls also believe that most people will fall somewhere along a sliding scale of "muddiness" and "towniness" and devised a tongue-in-cheek Muddy Quiz to enable visitors to calculate their so-called Muddy-Townie Ratio.

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  • I gave my "test song" a try on Will's iPod Mini and the result was the same exact "muddiness" as he described it.

    Musings of a Drunken Monk: January 25, 2005 Archives 2005

  • I gave my "test song" a try on Will's iPod Mini and the result was the same exact "muddiness" as he described it.

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  • I gave my "test song" a try on Will's iPod Mini and the result was the same exact "muddiness" as he described it.

    Musings of a Drunken Monk: January 2005 Archives 2005

  • In fact, there seems to be something amiss with the EQ, as volumes and relative volumes seem to change from track to track, and there is an overall (but only slight) "muddiness" to the recording.

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  • How do you deal with pond problems such as muddiness or excessive plant growth?

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  • Each note is distinct and there is not the 'muddiness' of inadvertentkly blended tones and notes created by structural design imperfections found in many other mid-priced OMs.

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