cloudiness

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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From cloudy + -ness.

At times, I seemed to distinguish faces, amid the cloudiness; but strangely indistinct, as though partly real, and partly formed of the mistiness through which they showed. — The House on the Borderland, William Hope Hodgson
It is Wisdom, Wisdom's self which gleameth through me; severing my cloudiness which yet again mantles over me, fainting from it, through the darkness which for my punishment gathers upon me. — The Confessions of St. Augustine, of Hippo, Saint Augustine
“I know that I shall never lack the means of life!” I think that through the cloudiness of his insanity he saw some antagonism in me, for he at once fell back on the last refuge of such as he--a dogged silence. — Dracula, Bram Stoker

cloud cover, overcast

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