Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun same as
pellucidness .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being pellucid; transparency; translucency; clearness.
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- noun
transparency ;lucidity ;clarity
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun passing light without diffusion or distortion
- noun free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression
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Examples
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To be moist, muddy, rumpled and smeared, when by the very nature of your position it is your duty to be clear-starched up to the pellucidity of crystal, to be spotless as the lily, to be crisp as the ivy-leaf, and as clear in complexion as a rose, — is it not, O gentle readers, felt to be a disgrace?
The Duke's Children 2004
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I'd even managed to stop it translating what the occasional patronizing mugull would ask me every time I stopped to gape at some extraordinary sight, as "Is one's discombobulation requiring pellucidity?"
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Diaphaneity, the noun form of diaphanous, is unfamiliar, and pellucidity could be confused with Pell grants.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Diaphaneity, the noun form of diaphanous, is unfamiliar, and pellucidity could be confused with Pell grants.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Diaphaneity, the noun form of diaphanous, is unfamiliar, and pellucidity could be confused with Pell grants.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Diaphaneity, the noun form of diaphanous, is unfamiliar, and pellucidity could be confused with Pell grants.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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The style, however, was pithy, and in writing that is the first Christian grace -- no, I forgot, it is the second; pellucidity is the first.
Love Me Little, Love Me Long Charles Reade 1849
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To be moist, muddy, rumpled and smeared, when by the very nature of your position it is your duty to be clear-starched up to the pellucidity of crystal, to be spotless as the lily, to be crisp as the ivy-leaf, and as clear in complexion as a rose, -- is it not, O gentle readers, felt to be a disgrace?
The Duke's Children Anthony Trollope 1848
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Lid originally made of mere opaque board, but changed latterly into a light frame, covered (_glazed_, so to speak) with entrails of animals, clarified into something of pellucidity.
Early Kings of Norway Thomas Carlyle 1838
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And the other the post-remote effect; as the renewed pellucidity of the cornea; and thus six links of causation may be expressed in words.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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