nebulosity
Americannoun
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nebulosities
plural
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nebulous or nebular matter.
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a nebulous form, shape, or mass.
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the state or condition of being nebulous.
noun
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the state or quality of being nebulous
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astronomy a nebula
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Etymology
Origin of nebulosity
From the Late Latin word nebulōsitās, dating back to 1755–65. See nebulose, -ity
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The hot central star can be seen faintly near the center of the nebulosity.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
Later, the stars wander out of their nursery to seek their fortunes in the Milky Way, stellar adolescents still surrounded by tuffs of glowing nebulosity, residues still gravitationally attached of their amniotic gas.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
A golden-yellow planetary disc, wrapt in dense nebulosity, shone out while the June twilight of these latitudes was still in its first strength.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
A peculiar veiled or tinted appearance has been remarked in some cases visually, and examination of the photographs strongly confirms the existence of absorbing nebulosity.
From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by David Peck Todd
When, with its giant reflecting telescope, photographs were taken of the region of Nova Persei after it had become comparatively faint, it was found that there was an extraordinarily faint nebulosity surrounding the star.
From Astronomical Discovery by Herbert Hall Turner
Through the battling nebulosities Yolara's face swam forth—horror-filled, distorted, inhuman!
From The Moon Pool by Abraham Merritt
They are transparent nebulosities, of extreme lightness, without mass nor density.
From Astronomy for Amateurs by Frances A. (Frances Alice) Welby
No one, who has not been stultified by theological nebulosities, ought to fail to know, as we knew when we first began to go to school, that a blind man cannot see anything at all.
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 07, May 14, 1870 by Various
On the Tennysonian reader pur sang Browning's work was pretty sure to make the impression so frankly described by Frederick Tennyson to his brother, of "Chinese puzzles, trackless labyrinths, unapproachable nebulosities."
From Robert Browning by C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford
Whence came these sparkling nebulosities, these mists of light?
From The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt
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