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Opacity vs Opacify - What's the difference?

opacity | opacify |

As a noun opacity

is (uncountable) the state or quality of being opaque, not allowing light to pass through.

As a verb opacify is

to make opaque.

opacity

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The state or quality of being opaque, not allowing light to pass through
    • We could not see the sandbar due to the opacity of the muddy water.
  • (uncountable) The state or quality of being inaccessible to understanding
    • The opacity of these decisions is troubling.
  • (optics, countable) A measure of relative impenetrability to electromagnetic radiation such as light.
    • The opacity of a clean glass window is near zero.

    Synonyms

    * opaqueness

    Coordinate terms

    * transparency

    opacify

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To make opaque.

    • Derived terms

    * opacifier