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clarity
clar·i·ty C0386700 (klăr′ĭ-tē)n.1. Clearness of appearance: the clarity of the mountain air.2. Clearness of thought or style; lucidity: writes with clarity and perception.
[Middle English clarite, brightness, from Latin clāritās, clearness, from clārus, clear; see clear.]clarity (ˈklærɪtɪ) n1. clearness, as of expression2. clearness, as of water[C16: from Latin clāritās, from clārus clear]clar•i•ty (ˈklær ɪ ti)
n. the state or quality of being clear; transparency; lucidity: the clarity of pure water; a difficult idea presented with clarity. [1300–50; Middle English clar(i)te < Middle French < Latin clāritās; see clear, -ity] Clarity - (The scents of the garden descended upon him, their contours) as precise and clear as the colored bands of a rainbow —Patrick Suskind
- As sharp as the last daybreak —Joy Williamson
From a book jacket blurb about Tess Gallagher’s ability to portray aging people’s vision of irremediable loss in novel, The Lovers of Horses. - As unreadable as a piece of modern sculpture —Frank Swinnerton
- (The image) blurred … like something familiar seen beneath disturbed though clear water —William Faulkner
- (The consonants) blur together like ink on a wet page —Sue Grafton
- Clear and diminished like a scene cut in cameo —Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Clear as a bell —John Ray’s Proverbs
One could compile a small book of just “Clear as” similes. The bell comparison along with “Clear as a whistle” and “Clear as crystal” are probably most frequently used and familiar. - [A theory synthesized from suppositions] clear as a case history written in a book —Jean Stafford
- Clear as a cloudless hour —Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Clear as a cube of solid sunshine —Anon
- [Eyes] clear as a fountain —Walter Savage Landor
- Clear as a graph —Anon
- Clear as a lake —Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Clear as a legal confession of murder —John Cheever
- Clear as an oboe solo —Diane Ackerman
- Clear as A on the piano in the middle of all the tuning instruments of an orchestra —Sylvia Plath
- Clear as a tear —Sylvia Plath
- Clear as cold water —Mark Helprin
- (The morning was) clear as glass —Mark Helprin
- Clear as infant’s eyes —John Keats
- (The creek flashed) clear as quartz —Ella Leffland
- Clear as righteousness —Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Clear as the A, B, C —George Washington
- Clear as the day —Miles Coverdale
“Clear as” comparisons linked with the day, time of day, and the sun at different times of the day include “Clear as noon” (shortened from the once popular “Clear as noon-day”) and “Clear as the sun” (both attributed to Roger North); “Clear as is the summer’s sun” (William Shakespeare); “Clear as the mid-day sunshine” (Nathaniel Hawthorne); “Clear as daylight” (Arnold Bennett). - Clear as the figures at the bottom of a Profit and Loss Statement —Anon
- Clear as the lines in a wet leaf —Charles Johnson
- Clear as the note of doom —Lord De Tabley
- (The men were naked and) clear as the point of a sword in the sun —George Garrett
- (The sky is as) clear as the song of a boy —Beryl Markham
- Clear as the twanging of a harp —Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Clear as wind —Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Clear, like accusation —Paul Horgan
- [Voice in the “silent dead of night “] distinct as a passing footstep’s fall —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Distinctly as white lace on velvet —Thomas Hardy
- (Shouldn’t the soul of a man be as) limpid and cutting as a diamond —John Cheever
- (The air is) lucid and lonely as wind chimes —Sharon Sheehe Stark
- (The poet’s work was about as) lucid as a polygraph chart —Joseph Wambaugh
- Lucidity is positively flowing over me like the sweet oils of Persia —Lorraine Hansberry
- Precise as a portrait photo —Natascha Wodin
- To read him (Descartes) was like swimming in a lake so clear that you could see the bottom —W. Somerset Maugham
- (Lake) transparent as liquid chrysolite —T. H. White
- Transparent as a white cloud in the moonshine —Hans Christian Anderson
- Transparent like some holy thing —Thomas Moore
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | clarity - free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expressionclearness, limpidity, lucidity, lucidness, pelluciditycomprehensibility, understandability - the quality of comprehensible language or thoughtmonosemy - having a single meaning (absence of ambiguity) usually of individual words or phrasesfocus - maximum clarity or distinctness of an idea; "the controversy brought clearly into focus an important difference of opinion"clearcutness, preciseness - clarity as a consequence of precisionperspicuity, perspicuousness, plainness - clarity as a consequence of being perspicuousunambiguity, unequivocalness - clarity achieved by the avoidance of ambiguityexplicitness - clarity as a consequence of being explicitabstruseness, obscurity, reconditeness, obscureness - the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand | | 2. |  clarity - the quality of clear water; "when she awoke the clarity was back in her eyes"uncloudedness, clearnesstransparentness, transparence, transparency - the quality of being clear and transparentsemitransparency, translucence, translucency - the quality of allowing light to pass diffuselyvisibility - capability of providing a clear unobstructed view; "a windshield with good visibility"distinctness, sharpness - the quality of being sharp and clearquality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeareopaqueness, opacity - the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light |
claritynoun1. clearness, precision, simplicity, transparency, lucidity, explicitness, intelligibility, obviousness, straightforwardness, comprehensibility the clarity with which the author explains this technical subject
clearness complexity, complication, obscurity, intricacy, imprecision, haziness2. transparency, translucency, translucence, clearness, limpidity The first thing to strike me was the incredible clarity of the water.
transparency dullness, murkiness, cloudinessQuotations
"Everything that can be said can be said clearly" [Ludwig Wittgenstein Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus]claritynoun1. The condition of being clean and free of contaminants:cleanliness, cleanness, pureness, purity, taintlessness.2. The quality of being clear and easy to perceive or understand:clearness, distinctness, limpidity, limpidness, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity, pellucidness, perspicuity, perspicuousness, plainness.Translationsclarity (ˈklӕrəti) noun1. the state of being clear or easy to see through. water remarkable for its clarity. 清澈 清澈2. the state of being easy to see, hear or understand. She spoke with great clarity. 清晰 明晰clarity
clarity[′klar·əd·ē] (chemical engineering) Measure of the amount of opaque suspended solids in a liquid, determined by visual or optical methods. clarity
Synonyms for claritynoun clearnessSynonyms- clearness
- precision
- simplicity
- transparency
- lucidity
- explicitness
- intelligibility
- obviousness
- straightforwardness
- comprehensibility
Antonyms- complexity
- complication
- obscurity
- intricacy
- imprecision
- haziness
noun transparencySynonyms- transparency
- translucency
- translucence
- clearness
- limpidity
Antonyms- dullness
- murkiness
- cloudiness
Synonyms for claritynoun the condition of being clean and free of contaminantsSynonyms- cleanliness
- cleanness
- pureness
- purity
- taintlessness
noun the quality of being clear and easy to perceive or understandSynonyms- clearness
- distinctness
- limpidity
- limpidness
- lucidity
- lucidness
- pellucidity
- pellucidness
- perspicuity
- perspicuousness
- plainness
Synonyms for claritynoun free from obscurity and easy to understandSynonyms- clearness
- limpidity
- lucidity
- lucidness
- pellucidity
Related Words- comprehensibility
- understandability
- monosemy
- focus
- clearcutness
- preciseness
- perspicuity
- perspicuousness
- plainness
- unambiguity
- unequivocalness
- explicitness
Antonyms- abstruseness
- obscurity
- reconditeness
- obscureness
noun the quality of clear waterSynonymsRelated Words- transparentness
- transparence
- transparency
- semitransparency
- translucence
- translucency
- visibility
- distinctness
- sharpness
- quality
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