VIVIDNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vividness mean? 

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

1. interest and variety and intensity

2. chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue

  Familiarity information: VIVIDNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIVIDNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Interest and variety and intensity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

color; colour; vividness

Context example:

the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness

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

interest; interestingness (the power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.))

Attribute:

colorful; colourful (having much or varied color)

colorless; colourless (weak in color; not colorful)

Derivation:

vivid (having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience)

vivid (evoking lifelike images within the mind)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

chroma; intensity; saturation; vividness

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

color property (an attribute of color)

Holonyms ("vividness" is a substance of...):

chromatic color; chromatic colour; spectral color; spectral colour (a color that has hue)

Derivation:

vivid ((of color) having the highest saturation)

vivid (having strong or striking color)

 Context examples 

My uncle had turned quite pale with the vividness of the memory, and he passed his hand over his eyes.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And I remember that the sounds they made reminded me of the squealing of pigs under the knife of the butcher, and I was struck with horror at the vividness of the analogy.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Now, by analyzing the structure of hibonite-based blue pigments, Subramanian has developed a way to match or surpass cobalt blue's vividness while using much less of the harmful carcinogenic cobalt ion or replacing it entirely.

(Chemists find path to 'new blue' in meteorite minerals, National Science Foundation)

In those days I was young, and all sorts of fancies bright and dark tenanted my mind: the memories of nursery stories were there amongst other rubbish; and when they recurred, maturing youth added to them a vigour and vividness beyond what childhood could give.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

At times he shocked them with the vividness of the narrative and his terms of speech, but beauty always followed fast upon the heels of violence, and tragedy was relieved by humor, by interpretations of the strange twists and quirks of sailors' minds.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

With a turn for literary expression myself, and a penchant for forcible figures and phrases, I appreciated, as no other listener, I dare say, the peculiar vividness and strength and absolute blasphemy of his metaphors.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)