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opacity vs cloudiness

cloudiness vs opacity

opacity and cloudiness both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
opacity Yes No No No
cloudiness Yes No No No
As nouns, cloudiness is a hyponym of opacity; that is, cloudiness is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than opacity:
  • opacity: the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light
  • cloudiness: the quality of being cloudy
Other hyponyms of opacity include muddiness, murkiness, blurriness, fogginess, fuzziness, indistinctness, softness.
opacity (noun) cloudiness (noun)
the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light the quality of being cloudy
incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds
the phenomenon of not permitting the passage of electromagnetic radiation gloomy semidarkness caused by cloud cover
Difference between opacity and cloudiness

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