Dimness

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The state of being dim or obscure; want of clearness, brightness, or distinctness; dullness; vagueness: applied either to the object or to the medium of vision or perception: as, the dimness of a view, of color, or of gold; the dimness of twilight or of the sky; dimness of vision, of understanding, memory, etc.
  • noun. Synonyms Obscurity, Gloom, etc. See darkness.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The state or quality � being dim; lack of brightness, clearness, or distinctness; dullness; obscurity.
  • noun. Dullness, or want of clearness, of vision or of intellectual perception.
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  • noun. The state of being dim, poorly illuminated, almost dark.
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  • noun. the property of lights or sounds that lack brilliance or are reduced in intensity
  • noun. the quality of being dim or lacking contrast
  • noun. the state of being poorly illuminated
    • Word Usage
    "A thick fog wrapped the world in dimness early this morning; at eight o'clock it was rolling off and piling itself in glorious headlands"
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    brightness  
    cross-reference
    dim  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    blurriness  dullness  fogginess  fuzziness  indistinctness  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    blackness  blur  chill  confine  dampness  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    adiaphanousness  anemia  ashiness  asininity  bad light  
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