Meaning of CLEARNESS
| Pronunciation: | | 'kleernis
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- [n] the quality of clear water; "when she awoke the clarity was back in her eyes"
- [n] free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression
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| | Synonyms: | | clarity, limpidity, lucidity, pellucidity, uncloudedness |
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| | Antonyms: | | abstruseness, obscureness, obscurity, opacity, opaqueness, reconditeness, unclearness | | |
| | See Also: | | clearcutness, comprehensibility, distinctness, explicitness, focus, monosemy, perspicuity, perspicuousness, plainness, preciseness, quality, semitransparency, sharpness, translucence, translucency, transparence, transparency, transparentness, unambiguity, understandability, unequivocalness, visibility | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Clear"ness\, n.
The quality or state of being clear.
Syn: {Clearness}, {Perspicuity}.
Usage: Clearness has reference to our ideas, and springs from
a distinct conception of the subject under
consideration. Perspicuity has reference to the mode
of expressing our ideas and belongs essentially to
style. Hence we speak of a writer as having clear
ideas, a clear arrangement, and perspicuous
phraseology. We do at times speak of a person's having
great clearness of style; but in such cases we are
usually thinking of the clearness of his ideas as
manifested in language. ``Whenever men think clearly,
and are thoroughly interested, they express themselves
with perspicuity and force.'' --Robertson.
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