diaphaneity

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All sorts of adjectives qualify our thoughts which appear incompatible with consciousness, being as such a bare diaphaneity.

From Essays in Radical Empiricism by James, William

What had been leanness in her youth had become transparency in her maturity; and this diaphaneity allowed the angel to be seen.

From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

From the conversation which followed I was able to learn that his neighbor, blond and wan almost to diaphaneity, taciturn and sarcastic, was Boulmier, a fellow-student.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various

From the conversation which followed I was able to learn that his neighbor, blond and wan almost to diaphaneity, taciturn and sarcastic was Boulmier, a fellow student.

From The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard by France, Anatole

The diaphaneity of Babet contrasted with the grossness of Gueulemer.

From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence