nebulousness en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English nebulous Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English nebulousness From nebulous + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The characteristic of being nebulous.
Though Pierre profoundly shuddered at that impenetrable yet blackly significant nebulousness, which the wild story of Isabel threw around the early life of his father; yet […]
1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities: