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lucidity|l(j)uːˈsɪdɪtɪ|
[ad. L. lūciditās, f. lūcid-us lucid: see -ity. Cf. F. lucidité.]
The quality or condition of being lucid; brightness, luminosity; now chiefly fig. intellectual clearness; transparency of thought or expression.
1656Blount Glossogr., Lucidity, brightness. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 497 Touching the Lucidity of Christ's Body after his Ascension. a1688Cudworth Immut. Mor. (1731) 259 There is indeed a Brightness or Lucidity in the Sun. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. IV. xlix. 346 Light frequently does not sensibly act otherwise than as the cause of lucidity, or of luminous phenomena. 1851Nichol Archit. Heav. 253 His precision of language and peculiar lucidity of exposition. 1855M. Arnold Resignation 298 Fate gave, what chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul. 1874H. Maudsley Respons. in Ment. Dis. vii. 229 Through their long intervals of lucidity. 1875H. James R. Hudson vi. 200 He looked at him with eyes of such radiant lucidity. 1884F. Temple Relat. Relig. & Sci. i. (1885) 10 The question..put by Hume..was handled by him with singular lucidity. |