opafication (n.)

1852, from French opafication; see opacity + -fication "a making or causing."

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1550s, "darkness of meaning, obscurity," from French opacité, from Latin opacitatem (nominative opacitas) "shade, shadiness," from opacus "shaded, dark, opaque," a word of unknown origin. The literal sense "condition of being impervious to light; quality of a body which renders it impervious to rays of light" in English is recorded from 1630s.

-fication

word-forming element meaning "a making or causing," from Latin -ficationem (nominative -ficatio), forming nouns of action from verbs in -ficare (compare -fy), combining form of facere "to make," from PIE root *dhe- "to set, put."

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