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PELLUCIDITY

English dictionary: Word overview

PELLUCIDITY (noun)
  The noun PELLUCIDITY has 2 senses:

1. free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression
2. passing light without diffusion or distortion

  Familiarity information: PELLUCIDITY used as a noun is rare.


English dictionary: Word details


PELLUCIDITY (noun)


Sense 1pellucidity [BACK TO TOP]

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 ("pellucidity" 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 "pellucidity"):

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

focus (maximum clarity or distinctness of an idea)

clearcutness; preciseness (clarity as a consequence of precision)

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

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

explicitness (clarity as a consequence of being explicit)


Sense 2pellucidity [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Passing light without diffusion or distortion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

pellucidness; limpidity; pellucidity

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

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


English Proverbs
"Never, Never... allow anyone to persuade you to suspend your common sense."
(English proverb)
"The rain falls yonder, but the drops strike here."
(Bhutanese proverb)
"Choose your neighbours before you choose your home."
(Arabic proverb)
"One swats the fly only if it annoys that person."
(Cypriot proverb)


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