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Hazy vs Fuzzy - What's the difference?

hazy | fuzzy |

As adjectives the difference between hazy and fuzzy

is that hazy is thick with haze; somewhat obscured with haze while fuzzy is covered with fuzz or a large number of tiny loose fibres like a carpet or many stuffed animals mentioned in the popular nursery rhyme fuzzy wuzzy was a bear .

As a noun fuzzy is

an individual flake of fuzzies.

hazy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Thick with haze; somewhat obscured with haze.
  • Not clear or transparent.
  • Obscure; confused; not clear; as, a hazy argument; a hazy intellect.

    • Derived terms

    * hazily * haziness

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    fuzzy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Covered with fuzz or a large number of tiny loose fibres like a carpet or many stuffed animals. Mentioned in the popular nursery rhyme Fuzzy wuzzy was a bear.
  • Vague or imprecise.
    • My recollection of that event is fuzzy .
  • Not clear; unfocused.
    • I finally threw out a large stack of fuzzy photos.

    Derived terms

    * fuzzily * fuzziness * fuzzy logic * fuzzy mathematics * fuzzy set * fuzzy control * fuzzy concept * fuzzy relation

    Noun

    (fuzzies)
  • an individual flake of fuzzies
    • You've got a fuzzy on your coat.