Definition of Muddiness

1. Noun. The wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water. "The sloppiness of a rainy November day"

Exact synonyms: Sloppiness, Wateriness
Generic synonyms: Wetness
Derivative terms: Muddy, Sloppy, Sloppy, Watery

2. Noun. A mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior. "A confusion of impressions"

3. Noun. The quality of being cloudy.
Exact synonyms: Cloudiness, Murkiness
Generic synonyms: Opacity, Opaqueness
Specialized synonyms: Turbidity, Turbidness, Haziness, Mistiness, Steaminess, Vaporousness, Vapourousness
Derivative terms: Cloudy, Cloudy, Muddy, Muddy, Murky

Definition of Muddiness

1. n. The condition or quality of being muddy; turbidness; foulness caused by mud, dirt, or sediment; as, the muddiness of a stream.

Definition of Muddiness

1. Noun. the characteristic of being muddy ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Muddiness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Muddiness

mudcap
mudcapped
mudcapping
mudcaps
mudcat
mudcats
mudded
mudder
mudders
muddied
muddier
muddies
muddiest
muddily
muddiness (current term)
muddinesses
mudding
muddle
muddle-headed
muddle through
muddle up
muddled
muddled through
muddlehead
muddleheaded
muddleheadedly
muddleheadedness
muddleheads
muddler

Literary usage of Muddiness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. On the Composition of Food and how it is Adulterated, Practical Directions by William Marcet (1856)
"We are indebted to our distinguished countryman, Professor Faraday, for a rapid and satisfactory method of determining the degree of muddiness of water, ..."

2. Note-book of Materia Medica, Pharmacology, and Therapeutics by Robert Edmund Scoresby-Jackson (1867)
"... to the ingredients used—of a certain density—are free from en-stabs and muddiness—are made with the purest sugar—and must !*• kept in a cool place, ..."

3. On the Composition of Food and how it is Adulterated, Practical Directions by William Marcet (1856)
"We are indebted to our distinguished countryman, Professor Faraday, for a rapid and satisfactory method of determining the degree of muddiness of water, ..."

4. Note-book of Materia Medica, Pharmacology, and Therapeutics by Robert Edmund Scoresby-Jackson (1867)
"... to the ingredients used—of a certain density—are free from en-stabs and muddiness—are made with the purest sugar—and must !*• kept in a cool place, ..."

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