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
The characteristic of this new school is an extreme vagueness, an intentional nebulosity.
From Critical Studies by Ouida
In August, 1901, an enveloping nebula was discovered, and a month later certain wisps of this nebulosity appeared to have moved bodily, at a speed seventy-fold greater than ever previously observed in the stellar universe.
From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by David Peck Todd
There was no connecting nebulosity between these objects, the tails of the two smaller not reaching each other, or the large comet.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
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
Through the battling nebulosities Yolara's face swam forth—horror-filled, distorted, inhuman!
From The Moon Pool by Abraham Merritt
Whence came these sparkling nebulosities, these mists of light?
From The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt
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
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
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