lucidityn.
/luːˈsɪdᵻti/, /ljuːˈsɪdᵻti/, U.S. /luˈsɪdᵻdi/ The quality or condition of being lucid; brightness, luminosity; now chiefly figurative intellectual clearness; transparency of thought or expression.
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the world > matter > light > intensity of light > [noun] > brightness
shinessc950
brightOE
gleamOE
lightnessOE
brightnessOE
brightheadc1300
glimc1400
lightsomeness1440
shinea1529
brightsomeness1548
lustrec1550
claritude1575
lightfulnessa1586
explendency1642
lucidness1648
lucidity1656
luculency1656
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > clearness, lucidity > [noun]
shireness?c1225
plainnessc1475
distinction1589
dilucidity1603
clarity1616
plain English1645
unmistakableness1665
distinctness1668
lucidness1836
unambiguity1842
lucidity1851
luminosity1865
luminousness1873
non-ambiguity1933
drover's dog1983
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > clarity > [noun]
plainnessc1475
perspicuity?1529
lightsomeness1581
dilucidity1603
transparency1615
clarity1616
limpitude1623
perspicuousness1697
lucidness1836
lucidity1851
pellucidity1868
limpidity1870
limpidness1870
clear-cutness1871
luminousness1873
clearness1885
the world > health and disease > mental health > [noun]
healthc1000
in witc1000
i-mindOE
mindc1380
reasonc1405
wit-state?c1450
common sense1536
sense1536
senses1540
soundness1548
sanitya1616
wisdoma1616
mental health?1650
saneness1727
mens sana1853
balance1856
lucidity1874
clear-headedness1882
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Lucidity, brightness.
1664 H. More Apol. in Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 497 Touching the Lucidity of Christ's Body after his Ascension.
a1688 R. Cudworth Treat. Eternal & Immutable Morality (1731) iv. iv. 260 There is indeed a Brightness or Lucidity in the Sun.
1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. IV. xlix. 401 Light frequently does not sensibly act otherwise than as the cause of lucidity, or of luminous phenomena.
1851 J. P. Nichol Archit. Heavens (ed. 9) 253 His precision of language and peculiar lucidity of exposition.
1855 M. Arnold Resignation 298 Fate gave, what chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
1874 H. Maudsley Respons. in Mental Dis. vii. 229 Through their long intervals of lucidity.
1875 H. James Roderick Hudson vi. 200 He looked at him with eyes of such radiant lucidity.
1884 F. Temple Relations Relig. & Sci. (1885) i. 10 The question..put by Hume..was handled by him with singular lucidity.
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