different between nebulosity vs nebulously

English

From Latin nebulositas.

nebulosity (countable and uncountable, plural nebulosities)

(meteorology, astronomy) The characteristic of being nebulous; cloudiness (measured in octas).

nebulous +? -ly

nebulously (comparative more nebulously, superlative most nebulously)

In a manner like that of a cloud or haze.
The vapour drifted nebulously into the hall.
As if viewed through a cloud or haze.
Vaguely, without clear purpose or specific intention.
He waved his hand nebulously in the direction he intended to go.

1866 - Herman Melville, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
The bladed guns are gleaming—
Drift in lengthened trim,
Files on files for hazy miles—
Nebulously dim.
1905 - Jack London, The Game, chapter IV
And there he stood, all but naked, godlike, in a white blaze of light. She had never conceived of the form of God except as nebulously naked, and the thought-association was startling.
1920 - Sinclair Lewis, Main Street, chapter XVI, section 2
Mysteriously aching, nebulously sad, she slipped away, half-convinced but only half-convinced that it was horrible and unnatural, this postponement of release of mother-affection, this sacrifice to her opinionation and to his cautious desire for prosperity.
1928 - H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
For an instant the ship was befouled by an acrid and blinding green cloud, and then there was only a venomous seething astern; where - God in heaven! - the scattered plasticity of that nameless sky-spawn was nebulously recombining in its hateful original form, whilst its distance widened every second as the Alert gained impetus from its mounting steam.
1931 - H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 6
Archaic covered bridges lingered fearsomely out of the past in pockets of the hills, and the half-abandoned railway track paralleling the river seemed to exhale a nebulously visible air of desolation.

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