fogs

Visibility-reducing vapors overhead

Fogs is the plural of fog—masses of low-lying cloud that reduce visibility near ground level: Morning fogs rolled in from the bay.

As a verb, fogs means to become obscured or to obscure: The mirror fogs up in the shower.

Figuratively, something that fogs your thinking clouds your judgment or memory: Exhaustion fogs the mind.

weather

mist

Fine airborne moisture

humidity · condensation · vapor · dewpoint · visibility · precipitation · stratus · clouds · moisture · dampness

obscures

shroud

Burial cloth or covering

  • veilFabric that obscures
  • envelopSurround and cover fully
  • cloakSleeveless outer wrap

blanket · dim · blur · conceal · hide · mask · screen · cloud · eclipse · shadow

confusion

bewilderment

State of being baffled

  • dazeBewildered mental state
  • hazeMurky atmospheric suspension
  • muddledIn a confused state

disorientation · unclear · befuddlement · grogginess · stupor · fuzziness · spaciness · wooziness · addled · sluggishness

murkiness

gloom

Pervasive dimness or dejection

  • dimnessInsufficient illumination
  • opacityImpermeability to light
  • murkThick atmospheric darkness

smokiness · haziness · obscurity · grayness · thickness · density · soupy · impenetrable · whiteout · smog

mystery

enigma

Something hard to fathom

secrets · eerie · spectral · ghostly · atmospheric · noir · gothic · liminal · uncertainty · ominous

Opposites
atmospheric clarity

fogsclear skies

Absence of cloud cover

sunshine · visibility · cloudlessness · fair weather · transparency

mental clarity

fogsclarities

States of transparency

lucidity · clearheadedness · sharpness · acuity · mental clarity

action on clarity

fogsclears

Removes or vindicates

clarifies · sharpens · defogs · unclogs · reveals

Phrases
Family

fog, foggy, fogged, fogging, fogginess, foggiest, defog, foggier, foghorns

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