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TRANSPARENTNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does transparentness mean?
• TRANSPARENTNESS (noun)
The noun TRANSPARENTNESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being clear and transparent
Familiarity information: TRANSPARENTNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being clear and transparent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
transparence; transparency; transparentness
Hypernyms ("transparentness" is a kind of...):
clarity; clearness; uncloudedness (the quality of clear water)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transparentness"):
limpidity; pellucidity; pellucidness (passing light without diffusion or distortion)
Derivation:
transparent (transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity)
transparent (so thin as to transmit light)
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