OBVIOUSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does obviousness mean? 

• OBVIOUSNESS (noun)
  The noun OBVIOUSNESS has 1 sense:

1. the property of being easy to see and understand

  Familiarity information: OBVIOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OBVIOUSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being easy to see and understand

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

noticeability; noticeableness; obviousness; patency

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

conspicuousness (high visibility)

Attribute:

noticeable (capable or worthy of being noticed)

unnoticeable (not noticeable; not drawing attention)

obvious (easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind)

unobvious (not immediately apparent)

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

apparency; apparentness (the property of being apparent)

blatancy (the property of being both obvious and offensive)

predominance; predomination (the quality of being more noticeable than anything else)

Derivation:

obvious (easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind)

 Context examples 

It seemed to me that, were I a gentleman like him, I would take to my bosom only such a wife as I could love; but the very obviousness of the advantages to the husband's own happiness offered by this plan convinced me that there must be arguments against its general adoption of which I was quite ignorant: otherwise I felt sure all the world would act as I wished to act.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)