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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun visibility has 3 senses
- visibility(n = noun.attribute) visibleness - quality or fact or degree of being visible; perceptible by the eye or obvious to the eye; "low visibility caused by fog" has particulars: conspicuousness, visual range
- visibility(n = noun.state) profile - degree of exposure to public notice; "that candidate does not have sufficient visibility to win an election" is a kind of salience, saliency, strikingness
- visibility(n = noun.attribute) Array - capability of providing a clear unobstructed view; "a windshield with good visibility" is a kind of clarity, clearness, uncloudedness
is a kind of perceptibility
Antonym: invisibility
Derived form adjective visible1
has particulars: low profile
CIDE DICTIONARY
visibility, n. [L. visibilitas: cf. F. visibilité.].
The quality or state of being visible. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
visibility, n.
1 the state of being visible.
2 the range or possibility of vision as determined by the conditions of light and atmosphere (visibility was down to 50 yards).
1 the state of being visible.
2 the range or possibility of vision as determined by the conditions of light and atmosphere (visibility was down to 50 yards).
Etymology
F visibilit{eacute} or LL visibilitas f. L visibilis: see VISIBLE
THESAURUS
visibility
CAT, aerospace, aerosphere, air hole, air pocket, airspace, apparentness, bump, ceiling, clearness, crosswind, crystal-clearness, distinctness, empty space, evidence, evidentness, favorable wind, fog, front, head wind, high-pressure area, hole, ionosphere, jetstream, low-pressure area, manifestness, obviousness, openness, openness to sight, overcast, overtness, palpability, patentness, perspicuity, plainness, pocket, roughness, soup, space, stratosphere, substratosphere, tail wind, tangibility, tropopause, troposphere, trough, turbulence, unmistakableness, unquestionability, visibility zero, visualityROGET THESAURUS
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Visibility
N visibility, perceptibility, conspicuousness, distinctness, conspicuity, conspicuousness, appearance, bassetting, exposure, manifestation, ocular proof, ocular evidence, ocular demonstration, field of view, periscopism, visible, perceptible, perceivable, discernible, apparent, in view, in full view, in sight, exposed to view, en vidence, unclouded, unobscured, in the foreground, obvious, plain, clear, distinct, definite, well defined, well marked, in focus, recognizable, palpable, autoptical, glaring, staring, conspicuous, stereoscopic, in bold, in strong relief, periscopic, panoramic, before one's eyes, under one's eyes, before one, +a vue d'oeil, in one's eye, oculis subjecta fidelibus, visibly, in sight of, before one's eyes, veluti in speculum.
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