CLARITY

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does clarity mean? 

• CLARITY (noun)
  The noun CLARITY has 2 senses:

1. free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression
2. the quality of clear water

  Familiarity information: CLARITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLARITY (noun)

Meaning:

Free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

clarity; clearness; limpidity; lucidity; lucidness; pellucidity

Hypernyms ("clarity" is a kind of...):

comprehensibility; understandability (the quality of comprehensible language or thought)

Attribute:

clear (clear to the mind)

unclear (not clear to the mind)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clarity"):

unambiguity; unequivocalness (clarity achieved by the avoidance of ambiguity)

perspicuity; perspicuousness; plainness (clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous)

clearcutness; preciseness (clarity as a consequence of precision)

focus (maximum clarity or distinctness of an idea)

monosemy (having a single meaning (absence of ambiguity) usually of individual words or phrases)

explicitness (clarity as a consequence of being explicit)

Antonym:

obscurity (the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand)

Meaning:

The quality of clear water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

uncloudedness; clarity; clearness

Context example:

when she awoke the clarity was back in her eyes

Hypernyms ("clarity" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Attribute:

clear (free from cloudiness; allowing light to pass through)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clarity"):

transparence; transparency; transparentness (the quality of being clear and transparent)

semitransparency; translucence; translucency (the quality of allowing light to pass diffusely)

visibility (capability of providing a clear unobstructed view)

distinctness; sharpness (the quality of being sharp and clear)

Antonym:

opacity (the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light)