[f. FOGGY a. + -NESS.]
† 1. Flabbiness, grossness. Obs.
1547. Boorde, Brev. Health, cclxxx. 93. In Englyshe it is named fatnes or fogyenes or such lyke.
1609. W. M., Man in Moone (1857), 125. Keeping them from fogginesse, grosnesse, and fiery faces.
1720. W. Gibson, Diet Horses, xi. (ed. 3), 170. All fogginess … proceeds from an over great Relaxation of the Canals and Vessels.
2. A foggy or misty condition.
1660. Ingelo, Bentivolio and Urania, I. 75. An old Temple dedicated to Agnoea; which was unspeakably dark, both because it had no windows, and by reason of the naturall fogginesse of the Aire, which was so thick that it might be felt.
1674. N. Fairfax, A Treatise of the Bulk and Selvedge of the World, 128. Whence new moisture or fogginess presses in.
1764. Reid, Inquiry, vi. § 22. 451. In order to produce such deceptions from the clearness or fogginess of the air, it must be uncommonly clear, or uncommonly foggy.
1859. Photogr. News, 9 Sept., 7/2. If a landscape lens be used of one of the new Petzval construction, the pictures produced by it are likely to be affected with fogginess.
fig. 1893. Ch. Times, 3 March, 221/1. There would be much less fogginess … and much more common sense.
