muddiness

1. 1.

   the wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water

   “the baseball game was canceled because of the wateriness of the outfield”

   “the water's muddiness made it undrinkable”

   “the sloppiness of a rainy November day”

   Synonymswaterinesssloppiness

   Broaderwetness
2. 2.

   a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior

   “a confusion of impressions”

   Synonymsconfusionmental confusionconfusednessdisarray

   Broadercognitive state

   Narrowerdisorientationdistractiondazehalf-cockjamais vubewildermentperplexity
3. 3.

   the quality of being cloudy

   Synonymscloudinessmurkiness

   Broaderopacity

   Narrowerturbidityhaziness

Other forms of muddiness

plural

muddinesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about muddiness

What does muddiness mean?

muddiness means "the wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in muddiness?

muddiness has 3 syllables: mud-di-ness. The stress falls on "mud".

What is another word for muddiness?

Close synonyms include wateriness, sloppiness, confusion, mental confusion, confusedness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is muddiness a common word?

muddiness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.