| 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 |
| Concept: | Perspicuity. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional means; language generally; various qualities of style |
Synonyms: |
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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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| Main Entry: | acumen |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to understand and reason |
Synonyms: |
acuity, acuteness, astuteness, awareness, brains, brilliance, cleverness, comprehension, cunning, discernment, discrimination, farsightedness, good taste, grasp, guile, ingenuity, insight, intellect, intelligence, intuition, judgment, keenness, perception, percipience, perspicacity, perspicuity, refinement, sagacity, sensitivity, sharpness, shrewdness, smartness, smarts, understanding, vision, wisdom, wit |
| Notes: | acumen suggests that keenness relates to a person's mind, whereas acuity suggests that it relates to a person's performance; acumen is something that a person has, whereas acuity is something that a person displays |
Antonyms: |
denseness, ignorance, inability, ineptness, obtuseness, stupidity |
| Main Entry: | clarity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clearness |
Synonyms: |
accuracy, articulateness, brightness, certainty, cognizability, comprehensibility, conspicuousness, decipherability, definition, directness, distinctness, evidence, exactitude, exactness, explicability, explicitness, intelligibility, legibility, limpidity, limpidness, lucidity, manifestness, obviousness, openness, overtness, palpability, penetrability, perceptibility, perspicuity, plainness, precision, prominence, purity, salience, simplicity, tangibility, transparency, unambiguity, unmistakability |
Antonyms: |
dirtiness, obscurity, unintelligiblity |
| Main Entry: | visual acuity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | keen sight |
Synonyms: |
20/20 vision, acute sight, perspicacity, perspicuity, sharp sight, twenty-twenty vision |
| Main Entry: | limpidity |
| 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, limpidness, 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: | 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 |