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noun
The property of being lucid; lucidity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: clarity, lucidity, pellucidity, clearness, limpidity
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: comprehensibility, understandability
Narrower terms: monosemy, focus, preciseness, clearcutness, perspicuity, perspicuousness, plainness, unambiguity, unequivocalness, explicitness
History
Etymology tree Latin lūcidus English lucid Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English lucidness From lucid + -ness.
Across languages
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
