Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or character of being vaporous; mistiness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality of being vaporous.

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  • noun The condition of being vaporous

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  • noun cloudiness resulting from haze or mist or vapor

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Examples

  • Oh and here is a goody: what does his vaporousness think about terrorism?

    Is he listening to himself? Helen 2007

  • Quite clearly, his vaporousness is incapable of grasping the links between Britain and America and the ideas that govern or in the case of Britain, used to govern those countries.

    Is he listening to himself? Helen 2007

  • Oh and here is a goody: what does his vaporousness think about terrorism?

    Archive 2007-11-01 Helen 2007

  • Has his vaporousness seen any fences around labour camps in China, another country he has recently visited without bothering to mention how Christians are treated there?

    Archive 2007-11-01 Helen 2007

  • Has his vaporousness seen any fences around labour camps in China, another country he has recently visited without bothering to mention how Christians are treated there?

    Is he listening to himself? Helen 2007

  • Quite clearly, his vaporousness is incapable of grasping the links between Britain and America and the ideas that govern or in the case of Britain, used to govern those countries.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Helen 2007

  • Their delicate vaporousness, and rare colours, were sweet delights to the old man, and he and Mrs. Welden spent happy evenings discussing them as personal possessions.

    The Shuttle 1907

  • Their delicate vaporousness, and rare colours, were sweet delights to the old man, and he and Mrs. Welden spent happy evenings discussing them as personal possessions.

    The Shuttle Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

  • Of their living habitations they made little account, conceiving of them but as _hospitia_, or inns, while they adorned the sepulchres of the dead, and, planting thereon lasting bases, defied the crumbling touches of time and the misty vaporousness of oblivion.

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

  • Ken Kalfus on All Shall Be Well; All Shall Be Well; and All Manner of Things Shall Be Well by Tod Wodicka: Although Wodicka turns up a provocative thought here and there, this musing, typical of Burt’s grief-laden vaporousness, serves also to illustrate the artless, wordy and underarticulated writing that makes 'All Shall Be Well' such a Black Death of a chore to read.

    An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008

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