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clarino |
clarion |
clarionet |
clarisonus |
claritude |
clarity
| clark
| clark cell
| clark gable
| clark standard cell
| clark's nutcracker
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun clarity has 2 senses
- clarity(n = noun.attribute) clearness, limpidity, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity - free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression; Array is a kind of comprehensibility, understandability
- clarity(n = noun.attribute) clearness, uncloudedness - the quality of clear water; "when she awoke the clarity was back in her eyes" has particulars: transparence, transparency, transparentness, semitransparency, translucence, translucency, visibility, distinctness, sharpness
has particulars: monosemy, focus, clearcutness, preciseness, perspicuity, perspicuousness, plainness, unambiguity, unequivocalness, explicitness
Derived forms adjective clear1, adjective clear10, adjective clear15
Antonym: obscurity
is a kind of quality
Derived forms adjective clear4, adjective clear11, adjective clear3, adjective clear7
Antonym: opacity
CIDE DICTIONARY
clarity, n. [L. claritas, fr. clarus clear: cf. F. clarté.].
Clearness; brightness; splendor. [1913 Webster]
"Floods, in whose more than crystal clarity,
Innumerable virgin graces row." [1913 Webster]
Innumerable virgin graces row." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
clarity, n. the state or quality of being clear, esp. of sound or expression.
Etymology
ME f. L claritas f. clarus clear
THESAURUS
clarity
Atticism, accuracy, admission of light, appropriateness, articulateness, articulation, atmospheric visibility, care, ceiling, ceiling unlimited, chasteness, chastity, classicalism, classicism, clear coast, clear road, clear-cutness, clearness, coherence, comeliness, comprehensibility, connectedness, consistency, conspicuity, conspicuousness, correctitude, correctness, crystal-clearness, crystallinity, definiteness, definition, diaphaneity, diaphanousness, dignity, directness, discrimination, distinction, distinctness, ease, easiness, easy going, effortlessness, elegance, elegancy, evidence, evidentness, exactitude, explicitness, facileness, facility, felicitousness, felicity, filminess, finish, fittingness, flow, flowing periods, fluency, freedom, fussiness, gauziness, glassiness, glasslikeness, good taste, gossameriness, grace, gracefulness, gracility, high visibility, highroad, intelligibility, lack of hindrance, limpidity, low visibility, lucidity, manifestness, meticulousness, naturalness, neatness, nicety, nonopacity, obviousness, patentness, pellucidity, percipi, perspicuity, plain English, plain sailing, plain speech, plain style, plainness, plane sailing, polish, precision, prominence, propriety, purity, refinement, restraint, royal road, seeing, seemliness, sheerness, show-through, simplicity, smooth road, smooth sailing, smoothness, straight sailing, straightforwardness, structure, taste, tastefulness, terseness, thinness, transmission of light, transparence, transparency, transpicuity, transpicuousness, unadorned style, unaffectedness, unambiguousness, uncloudedness, uncomplexity, uncomplicatedness, understandability, unequivocalness, unmistakableness, visibility unlimited, visibility zero, vitreosity, vitreousness, vitrescenceROGET THESAURUS
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Transparency
N transparence, transparency, clarity, translucence, translucency, diaphaneity, lucidity, pellucidity, limpidity, fluorescence, transillumination, translumination, transparent medium, glass, crystal, lymph, vitrite, water, transparent, pellucid, lucid, diaphanous, translucent, tralucent, relucent, limpid, clear, serene, crystalline, clear as crystal, vitreous, transpicuous, glassy, hyaline, hyaloid, vitreform.
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