单词 | lucidity |
释义 | lucidity (once / 1663 pages) n A good word definition should be characterized by its lucidity, or clarity. In other words, it should be clear and easy to understand — like this one. Lucidity comes from the Latin lucidus meaning "light, bright, clear." Certainly when something is light, bright, and clear, it's ripe with the quality of lucidity. An easy-to-read textbook is characterized by lucidity. A person too can possess a quality of lucidity, one that would allow her to express ideas as clearly as possible. WORD FAMILYlucidity: elucidate, lucidities+/elucidate: elucidated, elucidates, elucidating, elucidation, elucidative/elucidation: elucidations/elucidative: elucidatively/lucid: lucidest, lucidity, lucidly, lucidness USAGE EXAMPLESMr. Déon prided himself, he once said, on preserving “a certain anarchism of the right and a pessimism that strives for lucidity.” New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) So, herewith, a call for everyone to temper gloom with lucidity. Washington Post(Nov 23, 2016) Difficult times are giving way to dark times, and dark times require a special lucidity and a special vigilance and a special ferocity about principle. Washington Post(Nov 11, 2016) 1n free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper clarity, clearness, limpidity, lucidness, pellucidity abstruseness, obscureness, obscurity, reconditeness the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand unclearnessincomprehensibility as a result of not being clear monosemy having a single meaning (absence of ambiguity) usually of individual words or phrases focusmaximum clarity or distinctness of an idea clearcutness, precisenessclarity as a consequence of precision perspicuity, perspicuousness, plainnessclarity as a consequence of being perspicuous unambiguity, unequivocalnessclarity achieved by the avoidance of ambiguity explicitnessclarity as a consequence of being explicit comprehensibility, understandability the quality of comprehensible language or thought 2n a lucid state of mind; not confused Hyper saneness, sanity normal or sound powers of mind |
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