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opacite

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opacite [′äp·ə‚sīt]
(petrology)
Masses of opaque, microscopic grains in rocks, particularly in the groundmass of an igneous rock.


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Opacite de la peinture: Essais sur la representation au Quattrocento.
This term as well as others like "creolisation", "totalite", "co-naissance" (a Claudelian legacy) or opacite refer to identity not as stable, monolithic by-product of the post-Colombian machine, as Benitez-Rojo (1996: 5-10) would put it, but rather as a novel, dynamic, regional and cross-continental process rife with chaos, contradictions, intensity, beauty and pain.
Priska Degras observes that nombre de romans caraibes francophones sont investis, a des degres divers, de cette obsession ancienne: le poids de l'Histoire et le gouffre, affolant, de son opacite.
 
 
 
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