opacity
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8.3
- noun
- /oʊˈpæsɪti/
:
opacidad
- Many readers struggle with the opacity of academic writing, finding it challenging to grasp the main ideas.
- opacity and transparency
- racial opacity
Examples
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The opacity of the official voice of science is not its only problem.
Academic text (1998) -
Given the opacity of North Korea's totalitarian regime, its decision-making process is unknowable.
Academic text (2004) -
Do they possess a sort of opacity to us that they retain?
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The intrinsic opacity of financial markets is also common across countries.
Academic text (1996) -
The very opacity of the subject matter is part of the object's mystique or charm.
Academic text (2000) -
Primarily through paraphrasings, the authors begin to reduce the opacity of the theoretical terms.
Academic text (1990) -
According to Smaller and Mann, this opacity may mask serious dangers in the small print of the contracts.
Blog text (31) -
The racial opacity of mixed-race peoples created some sites of mobility for those in between.
Academic text (2010) -
Preliminary research indicates that footnotes without clear common tags may be the result of opacity by design.
Academic text (2005) -
The opacity of the legal document made it difficult for the audience to understand the implications.
Synonyms
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6.3
A lack of clear meaning that allows people to understand it in different ways
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7.3
Speech or writing that is unclear and hard to follow
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7.4
Hard to understand or see, making people feel confused
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A quality that you cannot understand or know the reasons for
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9.9
A state where something is very hard to understand
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A quality of being hard to understand and making people curious
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9.9
Something that is very hard to understand
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9.9
A difficulty understanding handwriting, signs, or codes
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Difficulty understanding something because it is complex or unclear
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A state in which something is out of sight and hard to notice or understand
How hard it is to understand something because its meaning is unclear
Very hard to understand because the ideas are unclear or complicated
The quality of being very difficult to understand because it is complex
Difficulty understanding something because it is very complex
Darkness or low light that makes things hard to see
Information or speech that is hard to understand and causes confusion
A situation when something is hard to understand
Writing that is hard to understand or enjoy
A state of being mysterious and hard to understand
Lack of clear detail that makes things hard to see or hear
Antonyms
Compounds
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Opacity comes from the Latin opacus, meaning 'dark' or 'shaded', and shares the same root as opaque. A helpful image is ideas in shadow: if you cannot see them clearly, they are hard to understand, which is why opacity can mean 'difficult to understand'.