Etymology

murkiness

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Today it means: The state or quality of being murky. Full definition →

Middle English mirkines
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  1. Middle English · inherited frommirkines
  2. English todaymurkiness

From Middle English mirkines, equivalent to murky + -ness. Compare also Middle English mirkenes, merkenes (“darkness”).

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