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 ‘glow’ which surrounds them has been observed in a few instances to have vanished without leaving any trace of nebulosity behind, but the causes which have brought about such a result are entirely unknown.
From The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' by Thomas Nathaniel Orchard
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
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
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
Existence, to follow out the argument, is not always painted in shadow, its horizon obscured by dark-tinted nebulosities!
From She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History. by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson
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
But, as to substance, he contains too many nebulosities and abstractions for my taste; a veritable mist of them, out of which emerges—what?
From Alone by Norman Douglas
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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