English noun: clearness |
1. | clearness (attribute) free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression |
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| Synonyms | clarity, limpidity, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity |
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| Broader (hypernym) | comprehensibility, understandability |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | clearcutness, explicitness, focus, monosemy, perspicuity, perspicuousness, plainness, preciseness, unambiguity, unequivocalness |
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| Attribute | clear, unclear |
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| Antonyms | abstruseness, obscurity, unclearness, reconditeness, obscureness |
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2. | clearness (attribute) the quality of clear water |
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| Samples | When she awoke the clarity was back in her eyes.
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| Synonyms | clarity, uncloudedness |
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| Broader (hypernym) | quality |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | distinctness, semitransparency, sharpness, translucence, translucency, transparence, transparency, transparentness, visibility |
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| Attribute | clear |
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| Antonyms | opaqueness, opacity |
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