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CLEARNESS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of clear water

Example:

when she awoke the clarity was back in her eyes

Synonyms:

clarity; clearness; uncloudedness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Attribute:

clear (allowing light to pass through)

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

transparence; transparency; transparentness (the quality of being clear and transparent)

semitransparency; translucence; translucency (the quality of allowing light to pass diffusely)

visibility (capability of providing a clear unobstructed view)

distinctness; sharpness (the quality of being sharp and clear)

Derivation:

clear (allowing light to pass through)

clear (free from clouds or mist or haze)

clear (free from flaw or blemish or impurity)

clear ((of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression

Synonyms:

clarity; clearness; limpidity; lucidity; lucidness; pellucidity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

comprehensibility; understandability (the quality of comprehensible language or thought)

Attribute:

clear (readily apparent to the mind)

unclear (not clear to the mind)

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

monosemy (having a single meaning (absence of ambiguity) usually of individual words or phrases)

focus (maximum clarity or distinctness of an idea)

clearcutness; preciseness (clarity as a consequence of precision)

perspicuity; perspicuousness; plainness (clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous)

unambiguity; unequivocalness (clarity achieved by the avoidance of ambiguity)

explicitness (clarity as a consequence of being explicit)

Antonym:

unclearness (incomprehensibility as a result of not being clear)

Derivation:

clear (readily apparent to the mind)

clear (free from confusion or doubt)

clear (accurately stated or described)

clear (characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving)

clear (clear and distinct to the senses; easily perceptible)

clear (freed from any question of guilt)

clear (easily deciphered)

Credits

 Context examples: 

I was completely bewildered between Mr. Spenlow and Mr. Jorkins, as to which of them really was the objecting partner; but I saw with sufficient clearness that there was obduracy somewhere in the firm, and that the recovery of my aunt's thousand pounds was out of the question.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Warmth and tenderness of heart, with an affectionate, open manner, will beat all the clearness of head in the world, for attraction, I am sure it will.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

She saw it all with a clearness which had never blessed her before.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Her eyes, a deep grey, with dark eye-lashes and eyebrows, had never been denied their praise; but the skin, which she had been used to cavil at, as wanting colour, had a clearness and delicacy which really needed no fuller bloom.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)