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UK
/əʊpˈeɪknəs/
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NOUN
- the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light
- incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning
How To Use opaqueness In A Sentence
- In the 1990s, however, as managerialism began to dominate the university, translucence and opaqueness replaced transparency.
- The seamless style combines opaqueness, transparency and colour for geometric lingerie.
- There was also smog, or haze, or some version of atmospheric opaqueness for which the International Olympic Committee has yet to invent a word.
- Lawrence was smiling but there was a guardedness is his eyes, an opaqueness that made me wonder how funny he found his own joke. Little Bee
- She had filled her pockets with specimens of obsidian, jaspers, and chalcedonies, of colors most beautiful, with a deep-dyed opaqueness, a shell-fracture, and a satiny polish like jade. A Touch of Sun and Other Stories
- Opaqueness, on the other hand, would hinder anticipation, adaptation, and evolution of complex vivisystems altogether.
- Leaving aside the bizarre opaqueness of the language here -- why doesn't Hulse just say that they categorically refused to accept any tax increases -- it's remarkable that Hulse does not consider it part of his job to provide any context or critique at all of the Tea Partiers' position on deficits. Jonathan Weiler: New York Times Acts as Press Secretary for House GOP Freshmen in Deficit Fight