Crossword-Solution: OPACITY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Opacity | n. | The state of being opaque; the quality of a body which renders it impervious to the rays of light; want of transparency; opaqueness. |
| Opacity | n. | Obscurity; want of clearness. |
We have 34 clues for the answer “OPACITY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the quality of being opaque to a degree | 1 answer |
| BEING opaque | 1 answer |
| Lack of transparency | 1 answer |
| Light-blocking ability | 1 answer |
| Lucidity's opposite | 1 answer |
| Milk-glass property | 1 answer |
| Murky quality | 1 answer |
| Opposite of transparency | 1 answer |
| incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning | 1 answer |
| state or quality of being opaque | 1 answer |
| the degree to which something reduces the passage of light | 1 answer |
| Milk quality | 2 answers |
| Lack of clarity | 2 answers |
| opaqueness | 4 answers |
| Congealment | 5 answers |
| imperspicuity | 7 answers |
| CONSISTENCE | 7 answers |
| CONFUSION CHARACTERIZED BY LACK OF CLARITY | 10 answers |
| CLARITY AS A CONSEQUENCE OF BEING PERSPICUOUS | 11 answers |
| coagulation | 12 answers |
| Transparency | 15 answers |
| corporeality | 16 answers |
| density | 31 answers |
| materiality | 34 answers |
| Clarity. | 38 answers |
| murkiness | 48 answers |
| solidification | 50 answers |
| dullness | 61 answers |
| fogginess | 68 answers |
| Layer | 69 answers |
| Obscurity | 72 answers |
| Fog | 80 answers |
| CLOUD ___ | 82 answers |
| Body | 82 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERTA
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greedy person
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Sentences with OPACITY (5)
Before we do this, however, we must render our photograph transparent, otherwise the opacity of the paper will mar our efforts.
The actual outlines of the rest of the form were so indistinct, that the more than semi-opacity of the alabaster seemed insufficient to account for the fact; and I conjectured that a light robe added its obscurity.
The light from the tiny lamps fell in all sorts of odd forms, as the rays crossed each other, or the opacity of our bodies threw great shadows.
But even in Homer the reflective passages are cheerless,(73) and the moment the Greeks grew systematically pensive and thought of ultimates, they became unmitigated pessimists.(74) The jealousy of the gods, the nemesis that follows too much happiness, the all‐encompassing death, fate’s dark opacity, the ultimate and unintelligible cruelty, were the fixed background of their imagination.
Blair relates the history of a case of vicarious menstruation attended with conjunctivitis and opacity of the cornea.
Quotes with OPACITY (3)
Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ... each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition-- all such distortions within our own egos-- condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other. That's how it is in all living relationships except wh…
Black and white is as if phoenix of colors has eloped into opacity.
It has never been easy for me to understand the obliteration of time, to accept, as others seem to do, the swelling and corresponding shrinkage of seasons or the conscious acceptance that one year has ended and another begun. There is something here that speaks of our essential helplessness and how the greater substance of our lives is bound up with waste and opacity... How can so much time hold so little, how can it be taken from us? Months, weeks, days, hours misplaced — an…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1995–2024).