nebulosity
noun
nebulous or nebular matter.
nebulosities
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pluralof nebulosity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
October we mean to spend at Paris, before we return to the nebulosities of London.
From Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville by Mary Somerville
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
Mere comets or vague nebulosities in the firmament, without a form, and without a home.
From Words of Cheer for the Tempted, the Toiling, and the Sorrowing by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
