LUCIDITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lucidity mean? 

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

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

2. a lucid state of mind; not confused

  Familiarity information: LUCIDITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LUCIDITY (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 ("lucidity" 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 "lucidity"):

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)

Derivation:

elucidate (make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear)

elucidate (make clear and (more) comprehensible)

lucid ((of language) transparently clear; easily understandable)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A lucid state of mind; not confused

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

saneness; sanity (normal or sound powers of mind)

Derivation:

elucidate (make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear)

lucid (having a clear mind)

 Context examples 

The light had come back to his eyes and the colour to his cheeks, as he set himself with great vigour and lucidity to explain the situation.

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

"Our young friend has glimpses of lucidity," said Professor Challenger, patting me upon the shoulder.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His appearance was as ghastly as ever, but all trace of delirium had left him and he spoke in a feeble voice, it is true, but with even more than his usual crispness and lucidity.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The discussion of some topics, even with Mrs. Micawber herself (so long the partner of my various vicissitudes, and a woman of a remarkable lucidity of intellect), is, I am led to consider, incompatible with the functions now devolving on me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)