Pellucidity

Pellucidity
Pellucidity Pel`lu*cid"i*ty, Pellucidness Pel*lu"cid*ness, n. [L. pelluciditas.] The quality or state of being pellucid; transparency; translucency; clearness; as, the pellucidity of the air. --Locke. [1913 Webster]

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  • pellucidity — See pellucid. * * * …   Universalium

  • pellucidity — noun transparency; lucidity; clarity Syn: pellucidness …   Wiktionary

  • pellucidity — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality of being clear and easy to perceive or understand: clarity, clearness, distinctness, limpidity, limpidness, lucidity, lucidness, pellu cidness, perspicuity, perspicuousness, plainness. See CLEAR …   English dictionary for students

  • pellucidity — peljÉ™ s n. lucidity, intelligibility, understandability; luminosity, brightness; clarity, transparency …   English contemporary dictionary

  • pellucidity — pel·lu·cid·i·ty …   English syllables

  • pellucidity — noun 1. free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression • Syn: ↑clarity, ↑lucidity, ↑lucidness, ↑clearness, ↑limpidity • Ant: ↑unclearness (for: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • Pellucidness — Pellucidity Pel lu*cid i*ty, Pellucidness Pel*lu cid*ness, n. [L. pelluciditas.] The quality or state of being pellucid; transparency; translucency; clearness; as, the pellucidity of the air. Locke. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • pellucid — pellucidity /pel oo sid i tee/, pellucidness, n. pellucidly, adv. /peuh looh sid/, adj. 1. allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass; translucent. 2. clear or limpid: pellucid waters. 3. clear in meaning, expression, or style: a pellucid… …   Universalium

  • limpidity — noun 1. free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression • Syn: ↑clarity, ↑lucidity, ↑lucidness, ↑pellucidity, ↑clearness • Ant: ↑unclearness (for: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • clarity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. clearness, transparency. See meaning. Ant., obscurity, opacity. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. clearness, lucidity, limpidness, limpidity, purity, brightness, precision, explicitness, exactness,… …   English dictionary for students

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