different between cloudiness vs haze

English

Etymology

cloudy +? -ness

Noun

cloudiness (countable and uncountable, plural cloudinesses)

1. The state of being cloudy (e.g. weather).

   Expect considerable cloudiness with occasional rain showers.

2. The property of being murky (e.g. liquid, style).

   Cloudiness in the water is most often caused in new aquariums by white bacteria.

3. The property of being obscure (e.g. information).

   Avoid cloudiness in your essay-writing.

Translations

Anagrams

• discounsel, senoculids, undisclose

English

Alternative forms

• hase (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• enPR: h?z, IPA^(key): /he?z/
• Rhymes: -e?z
• Homophones: hays, heys

Etymology 1

• The earliest instances are of the latter part of the 17th century.
• Possibly back-formation from hazy.
• Compare Old Norse höss (“grey”), akin to Old English hasu (“gray”).

(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)Origin unknown; there is nothing to connect the word with Old English hasu, haso (“gray”).

Noun

haze (usually uncountable, plural hazes)

1. Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility.
   • 1772 December, James Cook, A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Around the World, vol. 1 ch. 2:

     Our hopes, however, soon vanished; for before eight o'clock, the serenity of the sky was changed into a thick haze, accompanied with rain.
2. A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid.
3. An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent.

4. (figuratively) Any state suggestive of haze in the atmosphere, such as mental confusion or vagueness of memory.
   • 1957, Daphne du Maurier, The Scapegoat [1], ?ISBN, page 218:

     In my haze of alcohol, I thought for one crazy instant that he had plumbed my secret.
5. (uncountable, engineering, packaging) The degree of cloudiness or turbidity in a clear glass or plastic, measured in percent.
   • 1998, Leonard I. Nass and Charles A. Heiberger, Encyclopedia of PVC [2], ?ISBN, page 318:

     Haze is listed as a percent value and, typically, is about 1% for meat film.

6. (countable, brewing) Any substance causing turbidity in beer or wine.
   • 1985, Philip Jackisch, Modern Winemaking [3], ?ISBN, page 69:

     Various clarifying and fining agents are used in winemaking to remove hazes.

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Verb

haze (third-person singular simple present hazes, present participle hazing, simple past and past participle hazed)

1. To be or become hazy, or thick with haze.

Etymology 2

Possibly from hawze (“terrify, frighten, confound”), from Middle French haser (“irritate, annoy”)

Verb

haze (third-person singular simple present hazes, present participle hazing, simple past and past participle hazed)

1. (US, informal) 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.
2. To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work.
3. (transitive) In a rodeo, to assist the bulldogger by keeping (the steer) running in a straight line.

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Further reading

• haze in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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