English
Noun
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- clarity|Clarity, lucidity, especially in expression; the state or characteristic of being perspicuous.
#*1905, w:George_Bernard_Shaw|George Bernard Shaw, The Irrational Knot, ch. 18,
#*:Whether through the first officer's want of perspicuity or my own stupidity, I was not a bit the wiser for the explanation.
- Perspicacity; insight.
#*1965, "The Stupid Spy," Time, 19 Mar,
#*:Thompson, a high school dropout, said with rare perspicuity that he doubted the FBI would hire him.
- rare Transparency; translucence.
#*1900, w:Edith_Wharton|Edith Wharton, The Touchstone, ch. 11,
#*:It must have been on some such day of harsh sunlight, the incisive February brightness that gives perspicuity without warmth.
Synonyms
perspicuousness
Related terms
perspicacious
perspicaciously
perspective
References
R:Webster 1828
R:Webster 1913|perspicuity
R:Dictionary.com|perspicuity
"perspicuity" in Encarta® World English Dictionary [North American Edition] © & (P)2007 Microsoft Corporation.
Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.
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