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fogdom en · NOUN

Etymology

From fog + -dom.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A state of obscurity; confusion; absence of clarity.
    • After about two more weeks of fogdom, she wanted to rent a few movies. 2012, James L. Nutt, Confessions of a Bipolar Firefighter, page 379:
    • He expands, and becomes more and more transparent, till the inflation is so great as to end in the usual results of the law of expansion; or he passes off out of sight into infinite fogdom; and, like the comet that became entangled among the moons of Jupiter, never regains his orbit again, which, perhaps, is little cause for regret. 1849, Thomas Baldwin Thayer, Christianity Against Infidelity, Or, The Truth of the Gospel History, page 7:
    • For the busy traffic's roar, and the fogdom dun and brown Of thy streets, O London Town! 1890, Emily H. Hickey, "A Lay of London Town", in Charles James Longman, Longman's Magazine, Volume 15, page 488