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Translucency vs Opacity - What's the difference?

translucency | opacity |

As nouns the difference between translucency and opacity

is that translucency is the quality of being translucent while opacity is the state or quality of being opaque, not allowing light to pass through.

translucency

English

Noun

  • the quality of being translucent

    • Synonyms

    * semitransparency

    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