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ˈvividness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The state or quality of being vivid, in senses of the adj.a. Of colour, light, etc.
1667–8Boyle in Phil. Trans. II. 593 To examine..the Conjecture,..That the durableness of the Light..might proceed in great part from the Vividness of it. a1700Evelyn Diary 22 June 1664 With such lively colours, that for splendour and vividness we have nothing in Europe that approches it. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. IV. xliv. 190 In the vividness of its lustre..it exceeded any thing he had ever seen before. 1836Macgillivray Trav. Humboldt xviii. 256 Numerous palms are reflected by the surface of the river with a vividness almost as bright as that of the objects themselves. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede ii, The delicate colouring of her face seemed to gather a calm vividness, like flowers at evening. 1883M. B. Betham-Edwards Disarmed xxxiv, For a few minutes the flashes of lightning were awful in their vividness.
b. Of ideas, conceptions, impressions, etc.
1768Tucker Lt. Nat. II. i. xiii. 189 A variety of ideas afford us no notion of succession unless we perceive one come before the other; nor can it be imagined that their degrees of vividness or faintness will do the job. 1812Sir H. Davy Chem. Philos. 17 The notions of fairies and of genii, which have been depicted with so much vividness of fancy and liveliness of description. 1858J. Martineau Stud. Chr. 207 The very vividness of the conception may have rendered him insensible to the precariousness of the proof. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets xi. 356 Death at sea touched the Greek imagination with peculiar vividness.
c. Of description, narrative, etc.
1828Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) II. xi. 257 She has a mastery of the subject, and a truth and vividness of expression, second only to Cowper. 1845M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 7 His graphic narrative has all the vividness that art can give to description of what the describer has not himself actually witnessed. 1884R. W. Church Bacon ix. 220 In the essay on Friendship he describes the process with a vividness which tells of his own experience. |