cloudings

Slow visibility reductions

Cloudings is the plural of clouding, the process of becoming cloudy or obscured.

The word appears in contexts where multiple instances of obscuration occur: cloudings of the lens, cloudings of judgment.

It can describe physical phenomena like condensation or turbidity, or figurative dimming of clarity or perception.

opacity

turbidity

Cloudiness from suspended particles

dimming · fogging · misting · blurring · veiling · opaqueness · milkiness · translucence · muddying · darkening

meteorology

cirrus

High wispy ice formation

cumulonimbus · altocumulus · stratocumulus · cirrostratus · altostratus · cirrocumulus · lenticular · mammatus · contrail · pileus

cognitive

confusion

Mental disorientation or bewilderment

befuddlement · disorientation · fogginess · haziness · obfuscation · distortion · impairment · judgment · thinking · perception

vision

cataracts

Steep falls or eye opacity

blurriness · haziness · dimness · obscuration · fogging · filming · milkiness · visual · eyesight · lens

Opposites
clarity/transparency

cloudingsclearings

Treeless forest spaces

clarifications · brightenings · transparencies · illuminations · clearances

mental/cognitive state

cloudingsclarifications

Statements removing ambiguity

enlightenments · illuminations · comprehensions · understandings · clearings

Phrases
Family

cloudiness, clouding

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