opacity

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

OPAC'ITY, noun [Latin opacitas.] 1. Opakeness; the quality of a body which renders it impervious to the rays of light; want of transparency. opacity may exist in bodies of any color. 2. Darkness; obscurity.
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