mistiness

Within the mistiness was a core, a nucleus of intenser light — veined, opaline, effulgent, intensely alive.

The Moon Pool 2004

Within the mistiness was a core, a nucleus of intenser light -- veined, opaline, effulgent, intensely alive.

The Moon Pool 1919

Within the mistiness was a core, a nucleus of intenser light -- veined, opaline, effulgent, intensely alive.

The Moon Pool Abraham Merritt 1913

Each of the foregoing "ternalities" is developed with considerable insight, but with much artificiality and still more mistiness, which is felt at once in the distinction he makes between soul and spirit, and in the genesis of personality by the play of the necessitating nature-object on the free spirit.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

I remember that in college, my Art History courses always mentioned only one or two of his most abstract works with the conventional bullet points on atmosphere, "mistiness", and so on.

Turner Exhibition James Gurney 2008

All together, near to me as she actually was, there was a kind of mistiness in the figure which made it appear somewhat vague and distant, and a greenish grey seemed the prevailing colour.

Green Mansions: a romance of the tropical forest 1881

Anne Valery's cheeks were slightly flushed, and that Mr. Dugdale's "mistiness" of manner had assumed an unusual clearness.

Agatha's Husband A Novel Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1856

And Dick left it all with a swelling heart; not unwillingly, because he was going to a great promised happiness, but with a swelling heart none the less, and a kind of mistiness of vision, due in great measure to the real respect, the sincere gratitude he felt toward the land and life and people who had helped him to make of himself a very much bigger and better man than any previous efforts of his had promised to evolve out of the same material in Sussex, for example.

Jan A Dog and a Romance 1912

a kind of mistiness in the figure which made it appear somewhat vague and distant, and a greenish grey seemed the prevailing colour.

Green Mansions 2004

"mistiness," was presently to cost the nation four long years of bloodshed and misery, and a social revolution as complete as any the world has seen.

Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series) Henry James 1879