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Definition of Clearness
1. Noun. Free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression.
Generic synonyms: Comprehensibility, Understandability
Specialized synonyms: Monosemy, Focus, Clearcutness, Preciseness, Perspicuity, Perspicuousness, Plainness, Unambiguity, Unequivocalness, Explicitness
Attributes: Clear, Unclear
Derivative terms: Clear, Clear, Clear, Clear, Clear, Clear, Clear, Clear, Clear, Clear, Clear, Elucidate, Elucidate, Lucid, Pellucid
Antonyms: Obscurity, Unclearness
2. Noun. The quality of clear water. "When she awoke the clarity was back in her eyes"
Specialized synonyms: Transparence, Transparency, Transparentness, Semitransparency, Translucence, Translucency, Visibility, Distinctness, Sharpness
Generic synonyms: Quality
Attributes: Clear
Derivative terms: Clear, Clear, Clear, Clear, Clear, Clear, Clear, Clear, Unclouded, Unclouded, Unclouded, Unclouded
Antonyms: Opacity
Definition of Clearness
1. n. The quality or state of being clear.
Definition of Clearness
1. Noun. (obsolete) Brightness, brilliancy. (defdate 14th-17th c.) ¹
2. Noun. Mental or sensory distinctness; clarity of understanding, perception etc. (defdate from 16th c.) ¹
3. Noun. The state of being free from obscurities or opacity; distinctness of light, colour etc. (defdate from 17th c.) ¹
4. Noun. The state of being free from obstruction or interference. (defdate from 17th c.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Clearness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Clearness
Literary usage of Clearness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1876)
"Closely connected with this simplicity is his clear- clearness. ness. ...
In regard to this clearness of expression Dionysios has an excellent remark. ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN clearness AND OBSCURITY WITH REGARD TO THE PASSIONS IT
is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it affecting to the ..."
3. Composition, Oral and Written by Charles Sears Baldwin (1909)
"CHAPTER I THE PRINCIPLES OF clearness The themes in connection with this ...
clearness and interest, then, sum up all that we try to achieve by words. ..."
4. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1896)
"served in all philosophers, who have occupied themselves with the theory of
apperception, most of them having used as synonyms clearness and consciousness. ..."
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