CLEARNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clearness mean? 

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

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

2. the quality of clear water

  Familiarity information: CLEARNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLEARNESS (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 ("clearness" 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 "clearness"):

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:

unclearness (incomprehensibility as a result of not being clear)

Derivation:

clear (readily apparent to the mind)

clear (free from confusion or doubt)

clear (accurately stated or described)

clear (characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving)

clear (clear and distinct to the senses; easily perceptible)

clear (freed from any question of guilt)

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 ("clearness" 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 "clearness"):

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)

Derivation:

clear (allowing light to pass through)

clear (free from clouds or mist or haze)

clear (free from flaw or blemish or impurity)

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

 Context examples 

The young lady, with great clearness and composure, made the following curious statement: My father is dead, Mr. Holmes.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was no clearness or sanity in them—nothing but the terrific rage of a madman.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I had listened with the greatest interest to the statement which Holmes, with characteristic clearness, had laid before me.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For, although their largest telescopes do not exceed three feet, they magnify much more than those of a hundred with us, and show the stars with greater clearness.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

She spoke in rapid and fluent but very unconventional English, which, for the sake of clearness, I will make grammatical.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had all the clearness and quickness of mind which she wanted, and he could sometimes act an ungracious, or say a severe thing.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The grey cub's eyes had not been open long, yet already he could see with steady clearness.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I will prove myself a man, no less by the generosity of my soul than the clearness of my head.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I believe it to be an intuitive discernment, a quick but never-failing power of judgment, a penetration into the causes of things, unequalled for clearness and precision; add to this a facility of expression and a voice whose varied intonations are soul-subduing music.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

No charm was wanting, no defect was perceptible; the young girl had regular and delicate lineaments; eyes shaped and coloured as we see them in lovely pictures, large, and dark, and full; the long and shadowy eyelash which encircles a fine eye with so soft a fascination; the pencilled brow which gives such clearness; the white smooth forehead, which adds such repose to the livelier beauties of tint and ray; the cheek oval, fresh, and smooth; the lips, fresh too, ruddy, healthy, sweetly formed; the even and gleaming teeth without flaw; the small dimpled chin; the ornament of rich, plenteous tresses—all advantages, in short, which, combined, realise the ideal of beauty, were fully hers.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)