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
Optically it was always a puzzle, but photographs by Roberts of England first revealed the true spiral, with ringlike formations partially distinct, and knots of condensing nebulosity as of companion stars in the making.
From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by David Peck Todd
So far as I had thought of him at all, it was in a kind of nebulosity of the high disinterestedness that was responsible for Mark Eversley's interest in me.
From A Woman of Genius by Mary Hunter Austin
Speculated concerning the Milky Way, the nebulosity of stars, the origin and growth of solar systems.
From Pioneers of Science by Sir Oliver Lodge
In their turn, again, these rings of cosmical matter, excited by a rotary motion about the central mass, would have been broken up and decomposed into secondary nebulosities, that is to say, into planets.
From From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon by Jules Verne
Also in the constellation Cygnus, Barnard has discovered very extensive nebulosities of a delicate filmy cloudlike nature which are wholly invisible with telescopes, but very obvious on highly sensitive plates with long exposures.
From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by David Peck Todd
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
These have no tails, and are probably mere nebulosities, without solid nuclei.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
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
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