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Nebulosity   Listen
noun
Nebulosity  n.  
1.
The state or quality of being nebulous; cloudiness; haziness; mistiness; nebulousness. "The nebulosity... of the mother idiom."
2.
(Astron.)
(a)
The stuff of which a nebula is formed.
(b)
A nebula.





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"Nebulosity" Quotes from Famous Books



... room in darkness, the fire gone completely out, and the form of Christopher only visible by a faint patch of light, which, coming from a lamp on the opposite side of the way and falling upon the mirror, was thrown as a pale nebulosity upon his shoulder. Picotee was too flurried at sight of the familiar outline to know what to do, and, instead of going or calling for a light, she mechanically advanced into the room. Christopher did not turn or move in any way, and then she perceived that he ...
— The Hand of Ethelberta • Thomas Hardy
... difficulty in our way is the lack of clearness in our thought. People in the West are little used to clear thought with regard to religious matters. Everything is vague and nebulous. For occult development vagueness and nebulosity will not do. Our conceptions must be clear-cut and our thought-images definite. Other necessary characteristics are calmness and cheerfulness; these are rare in modern life, but are absolute essentials for the work which we ...
— A Textbook of Theosophy • C.W. Leadbeater


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