perspicuity

“Dear me, you are being truthful today,” he said, with remarkable perspicuity.

In a famous passage from Federalist 37, Madison doubted the capacity of language to produce the “perspicuity” — the linguistic precision — needed for such interpretation.

As a teenager Ben received a letter from his father saying his writing was inferior: “in elegance of expression, in method and in perspicuity, of which he convinced me by several instances,” as Franklin recalled.

The relative simplicity and perspicuity of geometrical and physical relations supply here the conditions of natural and easy progress.

Notwithstanding the perspicuity and apparent genuineness of this message, it was some time before I could make up my mind to follow the directions it gave me.