clearness

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being clear.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

clarity lucidity perspicuity limpidity lucidness pellucidity judaic fact certain evidence definition axiom understanding belief accuracy
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Antonyms

unclearness nebula enigma plenum patter penumbra
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Hypernyms

quality comprehensibility understandability

Hyponyms

focus sharpness distinctness transparence plainness perspicuity

Phrases with the word

clearness of the air clearness of the atmosphere clearness with

Anagrams

racleness cleansers

Examples

He knew that the whole mystery of beauty can never be comprehended by the crowd, and that while clearness is a virtue of style, perfect explicitness is not a necessary virtue. Arthur Symons

On this principle of arrangement, the voice, uttered from the stage as from a centre, and spreading and striking against the cavities of the different vessels, as it comes in contact with them, will be increased in clearness of sound, and will wake an harmonious note in unison with itself. Vitruvius

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend. Jim Harrison

Eutrapelia. "A happy and gracious flexibility," Pericles calls this quality of the Athenians... lucidity of thought, clearness and propriety of language, freedom from prejudice and freedom from stiffness, openness of mind, amiability of manners. Matthew Arnold

Certain moments remain in the mind with such force and clearness that one suspects they must be invented; that they are not held in the memory but generated out of the imagination. John Banville

A deliberate rejection of duty prescribed by already recognized truth cannot but destroy, or at least impair most seriously the clearness of our mental vision. Henry Liddon

Close letter words and terms

clearly valid clearly verified clearly visible clearness committee clearness of the air clearness of the atmosphere