CONSPICUOUSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conspicuousness mean? 

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

1. the state of being conspicuous

2. high visibility

  Familiarity information: CONSPICUOUSNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSPICUOUSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being conspicuous

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

salience; saliency; strikingness (the state of being salient)

Derivation:

conspicuous (without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious)

Sense 2

Meaning:

High visibility

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

visibility; visibleness (quality or fact or degree of being visible; perceptible by the eye or obvious to the eye)

Attribute:

conspicuous (obvious to the eye or mind)

inconspicuous; invisible (not prominent or readily noticeable)

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

noticeability; noticeableness; obviousness; patency (the property of being easy to see and understand)

obtrusiveness (an unwelcome conspicuousness)

boldness; strikingness (the quality of standing out strongly and distinctly)

Antonym:

inconspicuousness (the quality of being not easily seen)

Derivation:

conspicuous (obvious to the eye or mind)