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1 Nebulosity -- rank: 1000

Nebulosity definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary NEBULOSITY, n. [from nebulous.] The state of being cloudy or hazy ... 2. nebulous matter; also nebula 1 Webster's 1913 Dictionary Nebulosity Neb`u*los"i*ty, n. [L. nebulositas: cf. F ... or quality of being nebulous; cloudiness; hazeness; mistiness; nebulousness. The nebulosity . . . of the mother idiom. --I. Disraeli. 2. (Astron.) (a) The ...

2 Evolution -- rank: 453

... the powers possessed by the molecules of which the primitive nebulosity of the universe was composed" (Life of Darwin, II, 210 ... unaccounted for, namely, molecules in the form of a "primitive nebulosity" and "powers possessed by these molecules." How did primitive nebulosity come to exist? How did it come to be composed ...

3 haziness -- rank: 226

... indeterminateness, indistinctness, indistinguishability, inexactness, laxity, looseness, low profile, messiness, mistiness, nebulosity, nimbosity, nubilation, obscuration, obscurity, orderlessness, overcast, paleness, semivisibility, shadowiness, shapelessness ...

4 dark cloud -- rank: 226

... gathering clouds, halcyon bird, nebula, nebula of Lyra, nebular hypothesis, nebulosity, nebulous stars, owl, planetary nebula, rainbow, raven, ring nebula, shooting ...

5 Cloud -- rank: 226

... Joy Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms I. n. 1. Nebulosity, haze, mist, fog, vapor, collection of vapor. 2. Dense mass ...

6 nebula -- rank: 226

... nebula, dust cloud, gaseous nebula, nebula of Lyra, nebular hypothesis, nebulosity, nebulous stars, planetary nebula, ring nebula, the Coalsack, zodiacal light

7 Nebulous -- rank: 226

... indistinct stars, or a star in a luminous haze. Derivatives: nebulosity n. nebulously adv. nebulousness n. Etymology: ME f. F nébuleux ...

8 Overcast -- rank: 226

... low-pressure area, lowering, mammatus, menacing, mist, mistiness, murk, murky, nebulosity, nebulous, nimbose, nimbosity, nubilate, nubilation, nubilous, obfuscate, obfuscation, obnubilate, obnubilation ...