shadowinessn.
/ˈʃadəʊɪnɪs/ The quality or condition of being shadowy.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [noun] > indistinctness
undistinction1647
shadowinessa1672
indistinctness1704
obscure1787
muzz1843
fogginess1853
blur1860
blurredness1864
veiling1864
fuzziness1866
blear1868
nebulousness1878
incertitude1883
velation1922
blurriness1937
the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > darkness or gloom > [noun]
thicknessc1000
dusknessa1382
umbraclec1500
duskishness1541
sadness1601
duskiness1611
gloominess1611
opacity1611
gloom1645
shadowinessa1672
dusk1700
brown1729
gloaming1832
bat-light1871
dreich1928
a1672 P. Sterry Disc. Freedom of Will (1675) 213 [Christ] takes away..the shadowyness of the shadowy Image in its dissolution and restauration.
1682 H. More Annot. Lux Orientalis 116 in Two Choice & Useful Treat. And the shadowyness of the Night may help them in the more composing Introversions of their contemplative mind.
1881 Contemp. Rev. Mar. 479 The shadowiness and want of concreteness in the portraiture.
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