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viewlessness

viewlessness

9.9
A state of not being able to see because of fog or darkness
  • noun
  • /ˈvjuːləsnəs/
translation icon : invisibilidad
  • In the fog, the viewlessness made navigation difficult.

Examples

  • The thick mist created a sense of viewlessness across the entire valley.

  • The artist captured the feeling of viewlessness in her painting of the foggy morning.

  • At night, the darkness brought an eerie viewlessness to the deserted street.

  • The mountain's viewlessness surprised the hikers.

  • The thick mist created a sense of viewlessness across the entire valley.

  • In the fog, the viewlessness made navigation difficult.

  • At night, the darkness brought an eerie viewlessness to the deserted street.

Synonyms

invisibility
vsviewlessness
15 6.0

The state of not being seen by other people

is the same idea but expressed as another form
invisibleness
vsviewlessness
1 8.6

The state of not being able to be seen

is the same idea but uses a different suffix form
imperceptibility
vsviewlessness
1 9.5

A state of being very hard to notice

is limited to lack of visible presence rather than all senses
unnoticeableness
vsviewlessness
8.4

A state of not being seen or heard by other people

is total absence from sight rather than merely hard to notice

Antonyms

54 2.8

How easy it is to see things, for example in fog

How Visible

clarity
152 3.0
visibility
54 2.8
obscurity
33 7.4
hiddenness
1 7.8
viewlessness
9.9

Surface Forms

viewlessness singular

Morphology

viewlessness = viewless (transparent) = view + less + ness

Formed by adding -ness to 'viewless' (without a view), so the sense 'having no view or visibility' is directly derived from the parts.

Etymology

Viewlessness comes from view ('sight') plus -less ('without') and -ness ('state'). So viewlessness can mean the state of having no view, like a foggy morning or a dark street when you cannot see anything.