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Word Meanings - PERSPICUITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The quality or state of being transparent or translucent. Sir T. Browne. 2. The quality of being perspicuous to the understanding; clearness of expression or thought. 3. Sagacity; perspicacity. Syn. -- Clearness; perspicuousness; plainness;

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1. The quality or state of being transparent or translucent. Sir T. Browne. 2. The quality of being perspicuous to the understanding; clearness of expression or thought. 3. Sagacity; perspicacity. Syn. -- Clearness; perspicuousness; plainness; distinctness; lucidity; transparency. See Clearness.

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  • DISTINCTNESS
    1. The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things. The soul's . . . distinctness from the body. Cudworth. 2. Nice discrimination; hence, clearness; precision; as, he stated
  • PERSPICUITY
    1. The quality or state of being transparent or translucent. Sir T. Browne. 2. The quality of being perspicuous to the understanding; clearness of expression or thought. 3. Sagacity; perspicacity. Syn. -- Clearness; perspicuousness; plainness;
  • CLEARNESS
    The quality or state of being clear. Syn. -- Clearness, Perspicuity. Clearness has reference to our ideas, and springs from a distinct conception of the subject under consideration. Perspicuity has reference to the mode of expressing our ideas and
  • PLAINNESS
    The quality or state of being plain.
  • INDISTINCTNESS
    The quality or condition of being indistinct; want of definiteness; dimness; confusion; as, the indistinctness of a picture, or of comprehension; indistinctness of vision.
  • IMPERSPICUITY
    Want of perspicuity or clearness; vaguness; ambiguity.

 

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