as in ambiguity
the quality or state of having a veiled or uncertain meaning
the opacity of the abstract painter's works simply baffles many gallery visitors
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Recent Examples of opacity
Downtown painters in New York City such as Willa Wasserman, Michelle Uckotter, and Agnes Walden employ a kind of strategic opacity, refusing the more commercial route of vulnerable self-portraits.
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Grace Byron, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Sleep Mask Materials Photograph: Artur Debat/Getty Images The material affects the thickness and the opacity of the sleep mask against light.
—Nicole Kinning, Wired News, 30 Aug. 2025
But over the past dozen years, opacity reigned amid the rise of the streamers, which held on to internal metrics with an iron fist.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 20 Aug. 2025
The result will be opacity, uncertainty, greater financial risk and (especially) a persistent suspicion that inflation is being understated — all of which will push long-term bond yields higher and add to the cost of borrowing for consumers and producers alike.
—Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 19 Aug. 2025
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Grace Byron, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Sleep Mask Materials Photograph: Artur Debat/Getty Images The material affects the thickness and the opacity of the sleep mask against light.
—Nicole Kinning, Wired News, 30 Aug. 2025
But over the past dozen years, opacity reigned amid the rise of the streamers, which held on to internal metrics with an iron fist.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 20 Aug. 2025
The result will be opacity, uncertainty, greater financial risk and (especially) a persistent suspicion that inflation is being understated — all of which will push long-term bond yields higher and add to the cost of borrowing for consumers and producers alike.
—Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 19 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for opacity
Noun
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The composition has many hallmarks of surrealism, including dream logic – the strange, flowing and often illogical progression of images reflecting the unpredictable nature of dreams – metamorphosis and psychic ambiguity.—
Sally Jane Brown,
The Conversation,
29 Sep. 2025
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The ambiguity of authorship is meant to unsettle the reading of the text.—
Lana Lin
September 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Sep. 2025
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That intrigue and mysteriousness still rest in the canyon walls today.—
Madison Dapcevich,
Outside,
13 Sep. 2025
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These investments are inherently complex, involving limited liquidity, higher fees, and valuation opaqueness.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
24 Aug. 2025
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Microsoft The opaqueness of LLMs from OpenAI and Google leaves researchers in a bind.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
1 Apr. 2023
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“Opacity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/opacity. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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