mistiness
- noun
- /ˈmɪstɪnəs/
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neblina
- The mistiness of the mountains made the landscape look enchanting and mysterious.
Examples
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We admired the mistiness that hung over the lake at dawn, giving it a dreamlike quality.
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Into the bright, fragrant mistiness where lemon-yellow lilies slouched deliriously in the humming, pale-pink fluorescent light.
Fiction book (2000) -
There was a vast mistiness ahead.
Academic text (1990) -
So I'm hoping for maybe a little more magic mistiness on my face.
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I couldn't read the look on her face, the mistiness in her eyes.
Fiction book (1995) -
He waited for the curtain to fall as it had happened that time and even began to long for it as the woman's mistiness indicated she was passing from the jocose phase of drinking and heading pretty directly into the lachrymose, though there was always the possibility of the bellicose suddenly springing up.
Fiction book (1998) -
As I walked through the park, the gentle mistiness enveloped me, creating a serene atmosphere.
Synonyms
155
1.0
A thick cloud of tiny water drops near the ground that makes it hard to see
2
1.3
A heavy cloud near the ground that makes it hard to see far
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9.8
A faint cloudy mass, for example around a star or in a liquid
1
3.2
A liquid or the sky that is not clear because it has small bits in it
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5.9
Cloudy darkness that makes it hard to see through water or air
A lot of fog in the air that makes it hard to see
A thin mist in the air that makes things hard to see
A state when the air is full of mist and looks cloudy
Air full of mist that makes things look cloudy
A cloudy state in water or a photo that makes it hard to see through
Antonyms
How Misty
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word mistiness comes from the simple word mist, meaning 'small drops of water in the air', plus the ending -ness that means 'the state of'. So mistiness is the state of being misty and explains the soft, blurred look you get in fog or haze.