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Nebulosity   Listen
noun
Nebulosity  n.  
1.
The state or quality of being nebulous; cloudiness; haziness; mistiness; nebulousness. "The nebulosity... of the mother idiom."
2.
(Astron.)
(a)
The stuff of which a nebula is formed.
(b)
A nebula.





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"Nebulosity" Quotes from Famous Books



... that these planets are from the sun," said Procope, "the more venerable and advanced in formation are they found to be. Neptune, situated 2,746,271,000 miles from the sun, issued from the solar nebulosity, thousands of millions of centuries back. Uranus, revolving 1,753,851,000 miles from the center of the planetary system, is of an age amounting to many hundred millions of centuries. Jupiter, the colossal ...
— Off on a Comet • Jules Verne
... of defining Carlyle results not merely from his frequent golden nebulosity, but from his love of contradicting even himself. Dr. Johnson confessed to Boswell that when arguing in his dreams he was often worsted and took credit for the resignation with which he bore these defeats, forgetting that the victor and the vanquished were one and the same. Similarly ...
— Thomas Carlyle - Biography • John Nichol


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