clearness : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: clearness	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
clearness n free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression Synonym(s): clarity, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity, clearness, limpidity Antonym(s): abstruseness, obscureness, obscurity, reconditeness, unclearness the quality of clear water; "when she awoke the clarity was back in her eyes" Synonym(s): clearness, clarity, uncloudedness Antonym(s): opacity, opaqueness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Clearness \Clear"ness\, n. The quality or state of being clear. Syn: {Clearness}, {Perspicuity}. Usage: Clearness has reference to our ideas, and springs from a distinct conception of the subject under consideration. Perspicuity has reference to the mode of expressing our ideas and belongs essentially to style. Hence we speak of a writer as having clear ideas, a clear arrangement, and perspicuous phraseology. We do at times speak of a person's having great clearness of style; but in such cases we are usually thinking of the clearness of his ideas as manifested in language. [bd]Whenever men think clearly, and are thoroughly interested, they express themselves with perspicuity and force.[b8] --Robertson.