murkiness
Lack of clarity
Murkiness is the quality of being dark, cloudy, or difficult to see through.
Water has murkiness when sediment clouds it; fog lends murkiness to a landscape.
The word extends naturally to anything obscure or hard to penetrate: the murkiness of his motives, the murkiness of campaign finance laws.
Where there's murkiness, clarity is lacking.
Impermeability to light
- turbidityCloudiness from suspended particles
- cloudinessAtmospheric opacity from vapor
- hazinessState of being unclear
- fogginessObscured or unclear state
muddiness · blurriness · dimness · nebulosity · unclearness · indistinctness · translucence · sediment
Total absence of light
- shadowLight blocked by object
- duskDimming after sundown
- twilightLight after sunset
- dimnessInsufficient illumination
shade · overcast · dullness · somberness · tenebrous · crepuscular · penumbra · dreariness
Openness to multiple interpretations
- vaguenessAbsence of precision
- uncertaintyState of being unsure
- obscurityState of being unknown
- incomprehensibilityBeing impossible to grasp
unintelligibility · complexity · convolution · muddle · befuddlement · perplexity · doubt · obfuscation
Questionable trustworthiness
- dubiousnessQuality of being questionable
- questionabilityState of being doubtful
- dodginessUntrustworthiness, dubious nature
- untrustworthinessBeing unreliable or deceitful
secrecy · concealment · cover-up · corruption · impropriety · scandal · underhandedness · deception
opacity
Impermeability to light
- turbidityCloudiness from suspended particles
- cloudinessAtmospheric opacity from vapor
- hazinessState of being unclear
fogginess · muddiness · blurriness · dimness · nebulosity · unclearness · indistinctness · translucence · sediment · silt
darkness
Total absence of light
dimness · shade · overcast · dullness · somberness · tenebrous · crepuscular · penumbra · dreariness · shadowiness
ambiguity
Openness to multiple interpretations
- vaguenessAbsence of precision
- uncertaintyState of being unsure
- obscurityState of being unknown
incomprehensibility · unintelligibility · complexity · convolution · muddle · befuddlement · perplexity · doubt · obfuscation · opaqueness
shadiness
Questionable trustworthiness
- dubiousnessQuality of being questionable
- questionabilityState of being doubtful
- dodginessUntrustworthiness, dubious nature
untrustworthiness · secrecy · concealment · cover-up · corruption · impropriety · scandal · underhandedness · deception · dishonesty
- Darknessblackness, pitch black, pitch-black, inkiness, gloom
- quality statefreshness, ripeness, cleanliness, dirtiness, purity
- visibilityvisibility, visible, invisible, hidden, hide
- cloudingfogging, hazing, misting, blurring, obscuring
- hazinesshaze, haziness, fuzziness, blur, mistiness
- ambiguityambiguity, ambivalence, double meaning, vagueness, equivocation
murkinessclarity
State of being understandable
clearness · transparency · limpidity · pellucidity · crystallinity
murkinessclarity
State of being understandable
clearness · lucidity · perspicuity · intelligibility · comprehensibility
murkinesstransparency
State of being see-through
openness · forthrightness · directness · straightforwardness · candor