shadowiness
State of gloom
Shadowiness is the quality of being shadowy—dim, indistinct, or vaguely defined.
A room may have a pleasant shadowiness in late afternoon.
The word also applies to things that seem insubstantial or elusive: the shadowiness of his motives, the shadowiness of half-remembered dreams.
Insufficient illumination
- duskinessPartial darkness, shadowy state
- murkinessDimness, lack of clarity
- twilightLight after sunset
- gloomPervasive dimness or dejection
penumbra · obscurity · darkness · low-light · half-light · dusk · gloaming · crepuscular
Lack of clarity
- nebulosityCloudlike indistinctness
- blurrinessLack of visual clarity
- unclearnessAbsence of clarity
- fuzzinessIndistinct or unclear quality
opacity · ambiguity · imprecision · obscureness · indefiniteness · elusiveness · intangibility · formlessness
Act of hiding something
- stealthSecret, undetected movement
- furtivenessSecretive, evasive behavior
- covertnessQuality of being hidden
- clandestineConcealed from authorities
surreptitious · hidden · veiled · shrouded · obscured · secretive · undercover · cloak-and-dagger
Occupied by ghosts
- spectralGhostlike or wavelength-related
- ghostlyResembling a specter
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
- spookyUnsettlingly strange
uncanny · phantasmal · creepy · supernatural · otherworldly · ominous · foreboding · phantomlike
Somber, dispirited state
- sombrenessGrave, subdued quality
- drearinessState of dispiriting dullness
- bleaknessQuality of being dreary
- dismalnessCheerless, depressing quality
despondency · melancholy · sadness · pall · lugubriousness · mournfulness · wistfulness · pensiveness
dimness
Insufficient illumination
gloom · penumbra · obscurity · darkness · low-light · half-light · dusk · gloaming · crepuscular · umbra
indistinctness
Lack of clarity
- nebulosityCloudlike indistinctness
- blurrinessLack of visual clarity
- unclearnessAbsence of clarity
fuzziness · opacity · ambiguity · imprecision · obscureness · indefiniteness · elusiveness · intangibility · formlessness · amorphousness
concealment
Act of hiding something
- stealthSecret, undetected movement
- furtivenessSecretive, evasive behavior
- covertnessQuality of being hidden
clandestine · surreptitious · hidden · veiled · shrouded · obscured · secretive · undercover · cloak-and-dagger · behind-the-scenes
haunted
Occupied by ghosts
- spectralGhostlike or wavelength-related
- ghostlyResembling a specter
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
spooky · uncanny · phantasmal · creepy · supernatural · otherworldly · ominous · foreboding · phantomlike · wraithlike
gloominess
Somber, dispirited state
- sombrenessGrave, subdued quality
- drearinessState of dispiriting dullness
- bleaknessQuality of being dreary
dismalness · despondency · melancholy · sadness · pall · lugubriousness · mournfulness · wistfulness · pensiveness · heaviness
- Darknessblackness, pitch black, pitch-black, inkiness, murk
- visibilityvisibility, visible, invisible, hidden, hide
- mysteriousnessenigma, mystique, inscrutability, obscurity, crypticness
- dim lighttwilight, dusk, gloaming, half-light, semidarkness
shadowinessbrightness
Degree of light emitted
brilliance · luminosity · radiance · effulgence · illumination
shadowinessclarity
State of being understandable
distinctness · sharpness · definition · precision · crispness
shadowinesstransparency
State of being see-through
openness · forthrightness · legitimacy · uprightness · candor
shade, shadow, shady, shadowy, shadows, overshadow, shadowed, shadiness, shadowing