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CONSPICUOUSNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
High visibility
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("conspicuousness" is a kind of...):
visibility; visibleness (quality or fact or degree of being visible; perceptible by the eye or obvious to the eye)
Attribute:
conspicuous (obvious to the eye or mind)
inconspicuous; invisible (not prominent or readily noticeable)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "conspicuousness"):
noticeability; noticeableness; obviousness; patency (the property of being easy to see and understand)
obtrusiveness (an unwelcome conspicuousness)
boldness; strikingness (the quality of standing out strongly and distinctly)
Antonym:
inconspicuousness (the quality of being not easily seen)
Derivation:
conspicuous (obvious to the eye or mind)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The state of being conspicuous
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("conspicuousness" is a kind of...):
salience; saliency; strikingness (the state of being salient)
Derivation:
conspicuous (without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious)
