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
Nebulæ can be selected so that an insensible gradation shall take place from a coarse cluster like the Pleiades down to a milky nebulosity like that in Orion, every intermediate step being represented.
From Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works by Edward Singleton Holden
Speculated concerning the Milky Way, the nebulosity of stars, the origin and growth of solar systems.
From Pioneers of Science by Sir Oliver Lodge
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
Through the battling nebulosities Yolara's face swam forth—horror-filled, distorted, inhuman!
From The Moon Pool by Abraham Merritt
They appear as pale nebulosities, rounded or oval, more condensed toward the center, without, however, showing any distinct nucleus.
From Astronomy for Amateurs by Frances A. (Frances Alice) Welby
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
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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