opacity
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
- dashed outline: no word in this language
- Click any word to expand it.
Senses
Sense 1 noun
the phenomenon of not permitting the passage of electromagnetic radiation
Types & categories
- physical phenomenon hypernym
- optical opacity hyponym
- radiopacity hyponym
Related & opposite
- transparency antonym
- opaque derivation
Sense 2 noun
incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning
Types & categories
- incomprehensibility hypernym
Related & opposite
- opaque derivation
Sense 3 noun
the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light
Types & categories
- quality hypernym
- murkiness hyponym
- indistinctness hyponym
Related & opposite
- uncloudedness antonym
- opaque attribute
- opaque derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | transparency |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | opaque |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | physical phenomenon |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | optical opacity |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | radiopacity |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | opaque |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | incomprehensibility |
| 3 | antonym | Related & opposite | uncloudedness |
| 3 | attribute | Related & opposite | opaque |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | opaque |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | quality |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | murkiness |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | indistinctness |