perspicuousness

  • 51perspicuous — /pəˈspɪkjuəs / (say puh spikyoohuhs) adjective 1. clear to the understanding. 2. clear in expression or statement; lucid. 3. → perspicacious. {late Middle English, from Latin perspicuus} –perspicuously, adverb –perspicuousness, noun …

  • 52perspicuous — [pər spik′yo͞o əs] adj. [ME, transparent < L perspicuus < perspicere, to see through: see PERSPECTIVE] clear in statement or expression; easily understood; lucid perspicuity [pʉr΄spi kyo͞o′ə tē] n. perspicuousness perspicuously adv …

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  • 53clearness — noun 1. free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression (Freq. 3) • Syn: ↑clarity, ↑lucidity, ↑lucidness, ↑pellucidity, ↑limpidity • Ant: ↑unclearness, ↑ …

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  • 54crystal clear — adjective 1. transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity the cold crystalline water of melted snow crystal clear skies could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool lucid air a pellucid brook transparent crystal • …

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  • 55limpidity — noun 1. free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression • Syn: ↑clarity, ↑lucidity, ↑lucidness, ↑pellucidity, ↑clearness • Ant: ↑unclearness (for: ↑ …

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  • 56lucidity — noun 1. free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑clarity, ↑lucidness, ↑pellucidity, ↑clearness, ↑limpidity • Ant: ↑unclearness …

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  • 57lucidness — noun free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression • Syn: ↑clarity, ↑lucidity, ↑pellucidity, ↑clearness, ↑limpidity • Ant: ↑unclearness (for: ↑ …

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  • 58luculent — adjective (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable writes in a limpid style lucid directions a luculent oration Robert Burton pellucid prose a crystal clear explanation a perspicuous argument • Syn: ↑ …

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  • 59pellucidity — noun 1. free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression • Syn: ↑clarity, ↑lucidity, ↑lucidness, ↑clearness, ↑limpidity • Ant: ↑unclearness (for: ↑ …

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  • 60perspicuous — adj. 1 easily understood; clearly expressed. 2 (of a person) expressing things clearly. Derivatives: perspicuity n. perspicuously adv. perspicuousness n. Etymology: ME, = transparent f. L perspicuus (as PERSPECTIVE) …

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