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Definition of Pellucidity
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. Passing light without diffusion or distortion.
Generic synonyms: Transparence, Transparency, Transparentness
Derivative terms: Limpid, Pellucid, Pellucid
Definition of Pellucidity
1. n. The quality or state of being pellucid; transparency; translucency; clearness; as, the pellucidity of the air.
Definition of Pellucidity
1. Noun. transparency; lucidity; clarity ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pellucidity
Literary usage of Pellucidity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Aristotelēs Peri Psychēs = by Aristotle, Edwin Wallace (1882)
"Light then is the expression of this pellucid qua pellucid : and whenever this
pellucidity is present only potentially, there darkness also is present. ..."
2. Aristotle's psychology in Greek and English by Aristotle (1882)
"Light then is the expression of this pellucid qua pellucid : and whenever this
pellucidity is present only potentially, there darkness also is present. ..."
3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1845)
"pellucidity, which is susceptible of so many gradations from transparency to
opacity, must be taken into consideration, not according to its degree, ..."
4. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1845)
"pellucidity, which is susceptible of so many gradations from transparency to
opacity, must he taken into consideration, not according to its degree, ..."
5. The Theory of Light by Thomas Preston (1912)
"of this pellucid qua pellucid ; and whenever this pellucidity is present only
potentially, there darkness also is present. . . . Thus we have shown light to ..."
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