Noun: murkiness mur-kee-nus
- An atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance
"The murkiness of the foggy night made driving dangerous";
- fog, fogginess, murk, mirk [archaic]
- The quality of being cloudy
"The murkiness of the fog reduced visibility";
- cloudiness, muddiness
Type of: atmosphere, atmospheric state, opacity, opaqueness