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Meanings of murkiness in English

Portuguese
neblina

An atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance.

        neblina
        Catalan
        nuvolositat

        The quality of being cloudy.

              nuvolositat
              Usage of murkiness in English
              1
              Except for a faint murkiness in the air it was still day.
              The Yukon Trail: A Tale of the North
              2
              Quite rightly, Cooke notes the visual murkiness of Apple Tree Yard's palate.
              The Guardian
              3
              The diffuse light of the day darkened beyond the murkiness of night.
              Stonewielder
              4
              And the murkiness and cloudiness were not dissipated when parenthood was theirs.
              Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness
              5
              A sport that stops for bad light can't really muster much murkiness.
              The Guardian
              6
              Still, the theatrical murkiness makes for a well-rounded, if slightly overlong record.
              The Irish Times
              7
              Then slowly the murkiness rippled away, clarified, and the pain became acute.
              Earth Afire
              8
              Sir, -The murkiness of Dublin Bay is clearly not a recent phenomenon.
              The Irish Times
              9
              They stir up their own murkiness; but they fail to dim the stars.
              The White Ladies of Worcester: A Romance of the Twelfth Century
              10
              They stood, pressing against the wind, seeking to penetrate the murkiness in front.
              The Wings of the Morning
              11
              Something about the murkiness, the timelessness of that vision, leads me to him.
              Within arm's reach
              12
              Was the dust-flecked murkiness of the image itself to blame?
              Wired
              13
              It was what made her a beacon in the murkiness of his own existence.
              Think of a number
              14
              Most of them were nothing but puzzling compositions of murkiness.
              The thirteenth tale: a novel
              15
              The murkiness might make it hard to recognize any burglar you catch on camera.
              Wired
              16
              Dick considered rapidly the murkiness of an average man's life.
              The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition
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              Translations for murkiness
              Portuguese
              neblinanevoeiro
              Murkiness through the time