opaqueness
- noun
- /oʊˈpeɪk.nəs/
- Formal
:
opacidad
- In a nutshell, technological advancements have enabled Congress to pass laws that usher in a new era of tax transparency, eschewing past opaqueness.
But the more it's digitized, the less opaqueness, the less places people have to manipulate the system.
- But the more it's digitized, the less opaqueness, the less places people have to manipulate the system.
Examples
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The opaqueness of U.S. security policy has prompted a number of challenges to the use of the no-fly list.
Blog text (28) -
Throughout, the discipline and relative opaqueness of much of the White House's operations continued both to impress and to frustrate outside commentators.
Academic text (2003) -
Instead, the opaqueness is one of gaps and reticences, of what often seems a perverse, nearly invisible twisting of conventions and codes, of a game of hide and seek with the reader, played by a text that seems to be what it is not.
Academic text (1991) -
The opaqueness of the legal document made it hard for the average person to understand their rights.
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Teachers often complain about the opaqueness of some academic texts, which confuse rather than clarify.
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The opaqueness of the report left many readers unsure about the findings and 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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8.7
Making something unclear or hard to understand on purpose
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6.1
Lack of clear or exact meaning that makes things hard to understand
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7.4
Hard to understand or see, making people feel confused
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7.4
Hard to find or understand
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8.3
How hard something is to understand because it is unclear
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9.9
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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5.2
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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9.9
Difficulty understanding something because it is complex or unclear
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8.2
Something that stops you from seeing or understanding
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6.7
Unclear or hidden information that is hard to understand
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7.8
A state in which something is out of sight and hard to notice or understand
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
State of being hard to understand
Writing that is hard to understand or enjoy
A state of being mysterious and hard to understand
A quality of being mysterious and hard to understand
Information or speech that is hard to understand and causes confusion
A situation when something is hard to understand
Antonyms
How Opaque
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Opaqueness comes from the Latin opacus, meaning 'dark' or 'shaded', and it is the same root as opaque. A helpful image is a message in the dark. Its words are there but hard to read, so opaqueness also means 'difficult to understand'.