opacity
pronunciation
How to pronounce opacity in British English:
UK [əʊˈpæsəti]
How to pronounce opacity in American English:
US [oʊˈpæsəti]
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- Noun:
- the phenomenon of not permitting the passage of electromagnetic radiation
- incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning
- the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light
Word Origin
- opacity (n.)
- 1550s, "darkness of meaning, obscurity," from French opacité, from Latin opacitatem (nominative opacitas) "shade, shadiness," from opacus "shaded, dark, opaque" (see opaque). The literal sense "condition of being impervious to light" first recorded 1630s.
Example
- 1. Markets no longer reward instruments for complexity and opacity .
- 2. The opacity of the language leaves the law open to manipulation on political grounds .
- 3. Indications of interest merely increase their opacity .
- 4. Today 's environment is less forgiving of opacity .
- 5. Some of the opacity in the sector is clearing .