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LUCIDITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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 ("lucidity" 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 "lucidity"):
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)
Derivation:
elucidate (make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear)
elucidate (make clear and (more) comprehensible)
lucid ((of language) transparently clear; easily understandable)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A lucid state of mind; not confused
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("lucidity" is a kind of...):
saneness; sanity (normal or sound powers of mind)
Derivation:
elucidate (make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear)
lucid (having a clear mind)