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muddiness|ˈmʌdɪnɪs|
[-ness.]
The condition of being muddy. Also fig.
c1645Howell Lett. (1655) I. 39 If this Letter fail either in point of Orthography or Style, you must impute..the second to the muddinesse of my Brain. 1684–5Boyle Min. Waters 25 Of the Transparency, the Muddiness, or the Opacity of the Mineral Water. 1784J. Barry in Lect. Paint. vi. (1848) 217 Warm and cold tints..which by their mixture would produce muddiness and opacity. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Note-bks. (1872) I. 32 The horrible muddiness..of all Paris. 1867Trollope Chron. Barset II. lxi. 187 That muddiness of mind of which he had..accused himself. 1874Garrod & Baxter Mat. Med. (1880) 120 The solution in distilled water is clear, or has only a slight muddiness. 1915D. H. Lawrence Let. c 7 July (1962) I. 352, I am rid of all my Christian religiosity. It was only a muddiness. 1964S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 14) x. 107 ‘Muddiness of the iris’ is the expression used for indistinctness of the pattern, caused by inflammatory exudates. |