fuzzy
Fuzziness, instead of a rich, pure tone, might indicate an air leak in the instrument.
The photographer once kicked his tripod during a long exposure to get just the right fuzziness in an image.
With anger, all senses are heightened, vision is clearer, colors are sharper. It has none of the fuzziness that anxiety or stress cause.
In an era of New Age fuzziness, his mental clarity is refreshing.
This fuzziness about the future concerns him.

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fuzzily
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swimmy
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viewless
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Examples of fuzziness

fuzziness
Such 'fuzziness' is characteristic of investigating gender through material culture, with its 'multiple plausible scenarios'.
The synthetic mode of thinking is closely associated with intuition and thinking in terms of images, and it is synonymous with implicitness and fuzziness.
In particular, he committed himself to injecting into the logic of uncertain reasoning the fuzziness and openendedness of the generalizations conceived by the human mind.
The debate floundered, unable to overcome the fuzziness of the premises.
However, no one, to the authors' knowledge, has combined fuzziness with a functional language.
Still, such expressions give rise to further fuzziness between the constructions.
These errors are uncertain and bring fuzziness to the parameter identification.
Triangular membership functions are used to define the categories of fuzziness of each variable.
He views languages and cultures "as open systems with squishes, fuzziness, leaks, inventions, constructions, negotiations, and imaginations, and as constantly emergent" (10).
Several commentators observe that this situation impairs the clarity of our model and complain about the fuzziness of the process/representation distinction.
In the third chapter a general setting for multistage control under fuzziness is developed, and in the next four chapters refinements and developments are treated.
I will argue that we are dealing with a clear distinction between two uses of the genitive rather than with fuzziness.
Functional programming provides a natural domain for explaining the concept of fuzziness of a set.
If nothing else, the book can be read as an exemplar of rigorous analysis, intolerant of fuzziness and imprecision.
This interest has been fed by an increasing awareness even in generative linguistics of the fuzziness, semiregularity and irregularity of many phenomena on all levels of linguistic description.
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