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English Dictionary: vividness by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vividness
n
  1. interest and variety and intensity; "the Puritan Period was lacking in color"; "the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness"
    Synonym(s): color, colour, vividness
  2. chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue
    Synonym(s): saturation, chroma, intensity, vividness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vivid \Viv"id\, a. [L. vividus, from vivere to life; akin to
      vivus living. See {Quick}, a., and cf. {Revive}, {Viand},
      {Victuals}, {Vital}.]
      1. True to the life; exhibiting the appearance of life or
            freshness; animated; spirited; bright; strong; intense;
            as, vivid colors.
  
                     In dazzling streaks the vivid lightnings play.
                                                                              --Cowper.
  
                     Arts which present, with all the vivid charms of
                     painting, the human face and human form divine.
                                                                              --Bp. Hobart.
  
      2. Forming brilliant images, or painting in lively colors;
            lively; sprightly; as, a vivid imagination.
  
                     Body is a fit workhouse for sprightly, vivid
                     faculties to exercise . . . themselves in. --South.
  
      Syn: Clear; lucid; bright; strong; striking; lively; quick;
               sprightly; active. -- {Viv"id*ly}, adv. --
               {Viv"id*ness}, n.
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