unfogging

Making windows clear

Unfogging is removing fog or haze from something, whether literal or figurative.

You unfog a bathroom mirror after a shower, or unfog your mind to think clearly.

The word appears often in contexts of clarification: Let me help you with the unfogging of this mystery.

Defogging is more common for physical surfaces.

clarifying

demystify

Explain something confusing

clarify · untangle · decode · disambiguate · simplify · resolve · interpret · explicate · expound · unravel

visibility

clearing

Treeless space in forest

transparency · see-through · unobstructed view · clear view · sharpening · focusing

realization

epiphany

Sudden profound insight

enlightenment · realization · awareness · insight · discernment · grasp · recognition · perception · apprehension · cognizance

revealing

unveiling

Act of first revealing

unmasking · revelation · discovery · bringing to light · laying bare · exposing · stripping away · unearthing · detection · surfacing

Opposites
clarity transformation

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Moisture condensing on surfaces

steaming up · misting · clouding · befogging · hazing

mental/conceptual clarity

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Causing mental uncertainty

obfuscating · clouding · muddling · befuddling · obscuring

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