shadowiness

noun

Definition of shadowinessnext
as in vagueness

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  1. ambiguity
  2. profundity
  3. impenetrability
  4. darkness
Noun
  • The great efficacy of such a threat lies not in its use but entirely in the threat, the ambiguity.
    Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
  • All of humankind’s dualities and ambiguities are the dualities and ambiguities that exist in these characters.
    Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of ambiguity
Noun
  • Johnson earned his grand debut in a promo last month that teased Dylan as a new staffer who’s incapable of writing good material for host John Mulaney, which was followed by an actual sketch on December 7 of the musician spewing profundities on the red carpet for A Complete Unknown.
    Devon Ivie, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Whatever profundity the original had has been emptied out, and the new material is particularly enervating.
    Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 14 June 2024
Definition of profundity
Noun
  • Kim Gordon, The Collective A 71-year-old noise-rocker reciting spoken word over drum machines might scan as avant-garde impenetrability.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Scott blends Damon’s close-to-the-bone fragility and Alain Delon’s simmering impenetrability in making this uncertain Tom Ripley his own.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2024
Definition of impenetrability
Noun
  • Though the Earth's tilt is responsible for the extra darkness on Saturday, bi-annual time changes are the work of humans.
    Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The darkness injected by that film's director Zack Snyder is replaced with blue skies and hope.
    Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of darkness
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