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perspicuousness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clarity |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, articulateness, brightness, certainty, clearness, cognizability, comprehensibility, conspicuousness, decipherability, definition, directness, distinctness, evidence, exactitude, exactness, explicability, explicitness, intelligibility, legibility, limpidity, limpidness, lucidity, lucidness, manifestness, obviousness, openness, overtness, palpability, pellucidity, pellucidness, penetrability, perceptibility, perspicuity, plainness, precision, prominence, purity, salience, simplicity, tangibility, transparency, unambiguity, unmistakability |
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| Main Entry: | limpidness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clarity |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, articulateness, brightness, certainty, clearness, cognizability, comprehensibility, conspicuousness, decipherability, definition, directness, distinctness, evidence, exactitude, exactness, explicability, explicitness, intelligibility, legibility, limpidity, lucidity, lucidness, manifestness, obviousness, openness, overtness, palpability, pellucidity, pellucidness, penetrability, perceptibility, perspicuity, perspicuousness, plainness, precision, prominence, purity, salience, simplicity, tangibility, transparency, unambiguity, unmistakability |
| Main Entry: | lucidness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clarity |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, articulateness, brightness, certainty, clearness, cognizability, comprehensibility, conspicuousness, decipherability, definition, directness, distinctness, evidence, exactitude, exactness, explicability, explicitness, intelligibility, legibility, limpidity, limpidness, lucidity, manifestness, obviousness, openness, overtness, palpability, pellucidity, pellucidness, penetrability, perceptibility, perspicuity, perspicuousness, plainness, precision, prominence, purity, salience, simplicity, tangibility, transparency, unambiguity, unmistakability |
| Main Entry: | pellucidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clarity |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, articulateness, brightness, certainty, clearness, cognizability, comprehensibility, conspicuousness, decipherability, definition, directness, distinctness, evidence, exactitude, exactness, explicability, explicitness, intelligibility, legibility, limpidity, limpidness, lucidity, lucidness, manifestness, obviousness, openness, overtness, palpability, pellucidness, penetrability, perceptibility, perspicuity, perspicuousness, plainness, precision, prominence, purity, salience, simplicity, tangibility, transparency, unambiguity, unmistakability |
| Main Entry: | pellucidness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clarity |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, articulateness, brightness, certainty, clearness, cognizability, comprehensibility, conspicuousness, decipherability, definition, directness, distinctness, evidence, exactitude, exactness, explicability, explicitness, intelligibility, legibility, limpidity, limpidness, lucidity, lucidness, manifestness, obviousness, openness, overtness, palpability, pellucidity, penetrability, perceptibility, perspicuity, perspicuousness, plainness, precision, prominence, purity, salience, simplicity, tangibility, transparency, unambiguity, unmistakability |
| Main Entry: | perspicuity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clarity |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, articulateness, brightness, certainty, clearness, cognizability, comprehensibility, conspicuousness, decipherability, definition, directness, distinctness, evidence, exactitude, exactness, explicability, explicitness, intelligibility, legibility, limpidity, limpidness, lucidity, lucidness, manifestness, obviousness, openness, overtness, palpability, pellucidity, pellucidness, penetrability, perceptibility, perspicuousness, plainness, precision, prominence, purity, salience, simplicity, tangibility, transparency, unambiguity, unmistakability |
| Notes: | perspicacity means shrewdness and applies to people; perspicuity means easily understood and applies to things |
| Main Entry: | plainness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clarity |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, articulateness, brightness, certainty, clearness, cognizability, comprehensibility, conspicuousness, decipherability, definition, directness, distinctness, evidence, exactitude, exactness, explicability, explicitness, intelligibility, legibility, limpidity, limpidness, lucidity, lucidness, manifestness, obviousness, openness, overtness, palpability, pellucidity, pellucidness, penetrability, perceptibility, perspicuity, perspicuousness, precision, prominence, purity, salience, simplicity, tangibility, transparency, unambiguity, unmistakability |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | Perspicuity. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional means; language generally; various qualities of style |
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perspicuity, perspicuousness (intelligibility); plain speaking (manifestation); definiteness, definition; exactness; explicitness, lucidness.
-adjectives
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| Antonyms: | obscurity |
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| Concept: | Plainness. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional means; language generally; various qualities of style |
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-nouns
plainness; simplicity, severity; plain terms, plain English; Saxon English; household words
-verbs
call a spade "a spade"; plunge in medias res; come to the point.
-adjectives
plain, simple; unornamented, unadorned, unvarnished; homely, homespun; neat; severe, chaste, pure, Saxon; commonplace, matter-of-fact, natural, prosaic., dry, unvaried, monotonous.
-adverbs
in plain terms, in plain words, in plain English, in plain common parlance; point-blank.
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| Antonyms: | ornament |
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