Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality or state of being lucid; lucidity; transparency.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being lucid; lucidity.
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- noun The property of being
lucid ;lucidity .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression
Etymologies
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Examples
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But you have to streamline some of the information to make a compelling 11-minute information, and whatever is lost in fine-grain is made up for in lucidness.
Hot Cartoon Makes Understanding Credit Crisis Simple And Fun - The Consumerist 2009
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Another cause of anger is, as John McFall said in a rare moment of lucidness, that so many bankers treated everyone who asked them during the boom years how they were generating their money and whether the methods being used were sustainable as an idiot.
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She felt disoriented, the pounding in her head standing between her and lucidness.
No Way Out Andrea Kane 2001
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His statesmanship was of a high order; his oratory ingenuous, generally courteous and conciliatory, and always entertaining, from its lucidness and keenness.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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I don't pretend to be able to express myself in fine language, but I feel I have the power of expressing my thoughts with simplicity and lucidness.
The Diary of a Nobody Grossmith, George, 1847-1912 1921
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He is characterized by a lucidness of speech and a forcefulness of utterance which mark for him a towering place among the leaders of his church as a preacher and public speaker, and his logical and earnest style together with his sterling integrity guarantees to him no decline in his ascent of the higher heights of Zion.
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I don't pretend to be able to express myself in fine language, but I feel I have the power of expressing my thoughts with simplicity and lucidness.
Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith 1879
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In fairness, lucidness, fullness of statement, the two had a striking resemblance.
Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 James Gillespie Blaine 1861
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Then with the lucidness and precision of which few would have believed him capable, the old fellow repeated to the magistrate all that he had learned from Noel.
The Widow Lerouge ��mile Gaboriau 1852
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His extracts from the labors of the Academy of Science and his eulogies of the Academicians are models of lucidness under an ingenious and subtle form, rendered simple and strong by dint of wit.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 1830
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