| NOUN | state | muddiness, wateriness, sloppiness | the wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water |
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| cognition | muddiness, confusion, mental confusion, confusedness, disarray | a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior | |
| attribute | muddiness, cloudiness, murkiness | the quality of being cloudy |
| Meaning | The wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water. | |
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| Example | "the water's muddiness made it undrinkable" | |
| Synonyms | wateriness, sloppiness | |
| Broader | wetness | The condition of containing or being covered by a liquid / liquid (especially water) |
| Adjectives | muddy | (of soil) soft and watery |
| Meaning | A mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior. | |
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| Synonyms | confusion, mental confusion, confusedness, disarray | |
| Narrower | bewilderment, obfuscation, puzzlement, befuddlement, mystification, bafflement, bemusement | confusion resulting from failure to understand |
| daze, fog, haze | confusion characterized by lack of clarity | |
| disorientation | confusion (usually transient) about where you are and how to proceed | |
| distraction | mental turmoil | |
| half-cock | confusion resulting from lack of preparation | |
| jamais vu | The experience of being unfamiliar with a person or situation that is actually very familiar / familiar | |
| perplexity | Trouble or confusion resulting from complexity | |
| Broader | cognitive state, state of mind | The state of a person's cognitive processes |
| Spanish | confusión, desorden | |
| Catalan | confusió mental, confusió, desordre | |
| Meaning | The quality of being cloudy. | |
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| Synonyms | cloudiness, murkiness | |
| Narrower | haziness, mistiness, steaminess, vaporousness, vapourousness | cloudiness resulting from haze or mist or vapor |
| turbidity, turbidness | muddiness created by stirring up sediment or having foreign particles suspended | |
| Broader | opacity, opaqueness | The quality of being opaque to a degree |
| Spanish | nubosidad | |
| Catalan | nuvolositat | |
| Adjectives | muddy | (of color) discolored by impurities |
| muddy | (of liquids / liquids) clouded as with sediment | |
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