haziness
Blurred, indistinct state
Haziness is the quality of being hazy—unclear, indistinct, or slightly obscured.
The atmosphere has a haziness when dust or moisture diffuses the light: The haziness of the summer air softened the distant mountains.
Mental haziness suggests vagueness or confusion: There was a haziness to her memories of that night.
The word applies to anything lacking sharp definition or clarity.
Lack of sharpness
- fuzzinessIndistinct or unclear quality
- blurrinessLack of visual clarity
- softnessYielding to gentle pressure
- defocusRemove optical clarity
distortion · indistinctness · dimness · glare · out-of-focus · soft-focus · smudge · vagueness
Low-lying cloud cover
- mistFine airborne moisture
- smogSunlight-activated urban pollution
- murkThick atmospheric darkness
- vaporGaseous form of liquid
brume · cloudiness · mistiness · fogginess · overcast · gloom · humidity · moisture
Openness to multiple interpretations
- vaguenessAbsence of precision
- indistinctnessLack of clarity
- obscurityState of being unknown
- imprecisionLack of exactness
indefiniteness · equivocation · murkiness · nebulousness · doubt · confusion · inconclusiveness · fuzziness
Mental disorientation or bewilderment
- grogginessState of sluggish disorientation
- fogginessObscured or unclear state
- dazeBewildered mental state
- befuddlementState of utter confusion
disorientation · fuzziness · wooziness · drowsiness · muddledness · stupor · sluggishness · torpor
blur
Lack of sharpness
- fuzzinessIndistinct or unclear quality
- blurrinessLack of visual clarity
- softnessYielding to gentle pressure
defocus · distortion · indistinctness · dimness · glare · out-of-focus · soft-focus · smudge · vagueness · obscurity
fog
Low-lying cloud cover
vapor · brume · cloudiness · mistiness · fogginess · overcast · gloom · humidity · moisture · dampness
ambiguity
Openness to multiple interpretations
- vaguenessAbsence of precision
- indistinctnessLack of clarity
- obscurityState of being unknown
imprecision · indefiniteness · equivocation · murkiness · nebulousness · doubt · confusion · inconclusiveness · fuzziness
confusion
Mental disorientation or bewilderment
- grogginessState of sluggish disorientation
- fogginessObscured or unclear state
- dazeBewildered mental state
befuddlement · disorientation · fuzziness · wooziness · drowsiness · muddledness · stupor · sluggishness · torpor · lethargy
- confusionconfusion, confused, bewilderment, perplexity, baffled
- disorientationconfusion, dizziness, vertigo, bewilderment, daze
- drowsinesssleepiness, tiredness, grogginess, lethargy, fatigue
- inattentiondistracted, spacing, absent-minded, distraction, obliviousness
- mental statesknowledge, conscious, mood, anxious, memory
- visibilityvisibility, visible, invisible, hidden, hide
hazinessclarity
State of being understandable
clearness · transparency · brightness · limpidity · visibility