CLARITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clarity mean? 

• CLARITY (noun)
  The noun CLARITY has 2 senses:

1. free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression

2. the quality of clear water

  Familiarity information: CLARITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLARITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

clarity; clearness; limpidity; lucidity; lucidness; pellucidity

Hypernyms ("clarity" is a kind of...):

comprehensibility; understandability (the quality of comprehensible language or thought)

Attribute:

clear (readily apparent to the mind)

unclear (not clear to the mind)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clarity"):

monosemy (having a single meaning (absence of ambiguity) usually of individual words or phrases)

focus (maximum clarity or distinctness of an idea)

clearcutness; preciseness (clarity as a consequence of precision)

perspicuity; perspicuousness; plainness (clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous)

unambiguity; unequivocalness (clarity achieved by the avoidance of ambiguity)

explicitness (clarity as a consequence of being explicit)

Antonym:

obscurity (the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand)

Derivation:

clear (readily apparent to the mind)

clear (accurately stated or described)

clear (easily deciphered)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of clear water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

clarity; clearness; uncloudedness

Context example:

when she awoke the clarity was back in her eyes

Hypernyms ("clarity" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Attribute:

clear (allowing light to pass through)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clarity"):

transparence; transparency; transparentness (the quality of being clear and transparent)

semitransparency; translucence; translucency (the quality of allowing light to pass diffusely)

visibility (capability of providing a clear unobstructed view)

distinctness; sharpness (the quality of being sharp and clear)

Antonym:

opacity (the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light)

Derivation:

clear (allowing light to pass through)

clear (free from clouds or mist or haze)

clear (affording free passage or view)

clear ((of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims)

 Context examples 

Characteristic of the clarity of the boundary or edges of a finding or feature.

(Border Definition, NCI Thesaurus/DICOM)

In Lake Tahoe, impaired water clarity has precipitated declines in populations of deep-water invertebrates and other species.

(Ancient lakes: eyes into the past, and the future, National Science Foundation)

The vision for caCORE is to provide a common data management framework that will support the consistency, clarity, and comparability of biomedical research data and information.

(Cancer Bioinformatics Infrastructure Objects, NCI Thesaurus)

The images are enhanced by the addition of contrast agents which selectively intensify anatomical regions to intensify the clarity of the image for diagnostic purposes. 2005

(Contrast-enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging, NCI Thesaurus)

A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) pulse sequence that uses an inversion recovery technique to null fluids present in the imaging area, improving clarity of the object of interest.

(Fluid Attenuated Inversion Recovery, NCI Thesaurus)

Aspects like these are sent to us all to cleanse a situation and to help us understand it with greater clarity.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"The clarity in this trend is stunning, but we don’t yet know whether the new reefs can support the incredible diversity of tropical systems."

(Coral reefs shifting away from equatorial waters, National Science Foundation)

The extraordinary clarity of these waters allows sunlight to penetrate deep into the water column and support photosynthesis below 100 meters (328 feet).

(North Pacific Ocean fertilized by iron in Asian dust, National Science Foundation)

New therapies that specifically target and eradicate these cancer stem cells are needed to prevent tumors growing and spreading, but for that there needs to be more clarity around the target.

(‘Energetic Cancer Cells’ May Be Origin of Cancer Spread, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Problems with the cornea include: • Refractive errors • Allergies • Infections • Injuries • Dystrophies - conditions in which parts of the cornea lose clarity due to a buildup of cloudy material

(Corneal Disorders, NIH National Eye Institute)