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SHADINESS

• SHADINESS (noun)
The noun SHADINESS has 2 senses:

1. relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body
2. of questionable honesty or legality

Familiarity information: SHADINESS used as a noun is rare.

• SHADINESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

shade; shadiness; shadowiness

Context examples:

it is much cooler in the shade / there's too much shadiness to take good photographs

Hypernyms ("shadiness" is a kind of...):

semidarkness (partial darkness)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shadiness"):

shadow (shade within clear boundaries)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Of questionable honesty or legality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context examples:

they acted with such obvious shadiness that they were instantly recognizable / the shadiness of their transactions

Hypernyms ("shadiness" is a kind of...):

unlawfulness (the quality of failing to conform to law)

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(English proverb)
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(Bulgarian proverb)
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(Arabic proverb)
"He who goes slowly, goes surely; and he who goes surely, goes far."
(Corsican proverb)

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