turbidity
noun
the state or quality of being clouded or opaque, usually because of suspended matter or stirred-up sediment.
Example Sentences
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Any turbidness or impurity in the water will injure the clearness of the sweetmeats.
From Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches by Eliza Leslie
It possesses a slight degree of turbidness, and is esteemed for this property, which is considered to give it a retiring quality.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
Pain in the region of the liver, œdema of the inferior extremities, paucity and turbidness of the urine, yellowness of the skin, and great emaciation attended the latter stages of the disease.
From Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart by John Collins Warren
Yet, in the midst of the turbidness of adolescence, I was still two distinct personalities.
From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp
A microscopic examination of cholera stools shows that their turbidness depends chiefly upon desquamated epithelium, with which is mixed white corpuscles and bacteria.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
