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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



... which had been left behind, at least in a relatively greater proportion, after the first growth of worlds into which the heavier matter condensed, though not without some entanglement of the lighter substances. The wide extent and great diffuseness of this bright-line nebulosity over a large part of the constellation of Orion might be regarded, perhaps, as pointing in this direction. The diffuse nebulous matter streaming round the Pleiades might possibly be another instance, though the character of its spectrum ...
— Scientific American Supplement No. 819 - Volume XXXII, Number 819. Issue Date September 12, 1891 • Various


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