nebulosity

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The hot central star can be seen faintly near the center of the nebulosity.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

Later, the stars wander out of their nursery to seek their fortunes in the Milky Way, stellar adolescents still surrounded by tuffs of glowing nebulosity, residues still gravitationally attached of their amniotic gas.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Moreover, those who maintain the existence of nebulæ, do not refer the nebulosity to extreme distance; they declare it a real and not merely a perspective nebulosity.

From Eureka: A Prose Poem by Poe, Edgar A.

His mental nebulosity is resolving itself into something concrete, which shall weigh upon him for a while and propel him in the direction of Atheism and Demagogy.

From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares

His sonnet on Ben Nevis, 1818, is also an utterance of scepticism—speaking of heaven and hell as misty surmises, and of “the world of thought and mental might” as a realm of nebulosity.

From Life of John Keats by Rossetti, William Michael