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- noun The property of being
clearsighted .
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Examples
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"Without speaking of your clearsightedness, which is so prompt as to seem almost like second sight, your examination just now was a master-piece of its kind.
Crime d'Orcival. English ��mile Gaboriau 1852
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"I have the disease to thank for this clearsightedness" (p. 500).
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This is a call for clearsightedness for foresight and for action, and in each case I've demonstrated an ability to step forward.
Joshua Scheer: Rep. Kucinich: Why I'm Running for President 2008
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He saw also that there was a fortune awaiting the discoverer of cheap paper, and the event has justified his clearsightedness.
Eve and David 2007
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He saw also that there was a fortune awaiting the discoverer of cheap paper, and the event has justified his clearsightedness.
Eve and David 2007
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But with all this clearsightedness there was something that she did not see through.
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It was the first 'inside' (as opposed to clinical) account of an autistic child's development and life; and it was written with an intelligence, a clearsightedness, an insight, and a love that brought out to the full the absolute strangeness, the 'otherness,' of the autistic mind.
Leaving Nirvana Sacks, Oliver 2001
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On this occasion, the Cuban Communists and the entire Cuban people express to you their total faith in the CPV's collective clearsightedness and in you, a combatant who has been seasoned in the struggle for the cause of liberation, unification, and social progress of the fatherland of Vietnam.
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The activity of the Holy See aims at combining, in the best way possible, goodwill, clearsightedness, and that healthy realism which is the best servant of the highest ideals.
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And in a flash-one brief instant of clearsightedness-he viewed upon the surface of his mind's inner eye the being behind the monster.
Psychosphere Lumley, Brian 1984
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