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LUCIDNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lucidness mean?
• LUCIDNESS (noun)
The noun LUCIDNESS has 1 sense:
1. free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression
Familiarity information: LUCIDNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("lucidness" 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 "lucidness"):
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)
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