Clarity vs. Haze

Claritynoun

The state or measure of being clear, either in appearance, thought or style; lucidity.

Claritynoun

Clearness; brightness; splendor.

Claritynoun

free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression

Claritynoun

the quality of clear water;

Claritynoun

the quality of being coherent and intelligible

Claritynoun

the quality of being certain or definite

Claritynoun

the quality of transparency or purity

Claritynoun

the quality of being easy to see or hear; sharpness of image or sound

Hazenoun

Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility.

Hazenoun

A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid.

Hazenoun

An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent.

Hazenoun

(figuratively) Any state suggestive of haze in the atmosphere, such as mental confusion or vagueness of memory.

Hazenoun

The degree of cloudiness or turbidity in a clear glass or plastic, measured in percent.

Hazenoun

Any substance causing turbidity in beer or wine.

Hazeverb

To be hazy, or thick with haze.

Hazeverb

To perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting individual, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college or military unit.

Hazeverb

To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work.

Hazeverb

(transitive) In a rodeo, to assist the bulldogger by keeping (the steer) running in a straight line.

Hazenoun

Light vapor or smoke in the air which more or less impedes vision, with little or no dampness; a lack of transparency in the air; hence, figuratively, obscurity; dimness.

Hazenoun

A state of confusion, uncertainty, or vagueness of thought or perception; as, after the explosion, people were wandering around in a haze.

Hazeverb

To be hazy, or thick with haze.

Hazeverb

To harass by exacting unnecessary, disagreeable, or difficult work.

Hazeverb

To harass or annoy by playing abusive or shameful tricks upon; to humiliate by practical jokes; - used esp. of college students, as an initiation rite into a fraternity or other group; as, the sophomores hazed a freshman.

Hazenoun

atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility

Hazenoun

confusion characterized by lack of clarity

Hazeverb

become hazy, dull, or cloudy

Hazeverb

harass by imposing humiliating or painful tasks, as in military institutions

Hazenoun

a slight obscuration of the lower atmosphere, typically caused by fine suspended particles

Hazenoun

a very fine cloud of something such as vapour or smoke in the air

Hazenoun

a state of mental confusion

Hazeverb

obscure with a haze

Hazeverb

force (a new or potential recruit to the military or a university fraternity) to perform strenuous, humiliating, or dangerous tasks

Hazeverb

drive (cattle) while on horseback

Haze

Haze is traditionally an atmospheric phenomenon in which dust, smoke, and other dry particulates obscure the clarity of the sky. The World Meteorological Organization manual of codes includes a classification of horizontal obscuration into categories of fog, ice fog, steam fog, mist, haze, smoke, volcanic ash, dust, sand, and snow.