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Meaning of CLARITY

Pronunciation:  'klaritee

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  the quality of clear water; "when she awoke the clarity was back in her eyes"
  2. [n]  free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression
 
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 Synonyms: clearness, limpidity, lucidity, pellucidity, uncloudedness
 
 Antonyms: abstruseness, obscureness, obscurity, opacity, opaqueness, reconditeness, unclearness
 
 See Also: clearcutness, comprehensibility, distinctness, explicitness, focus, monosemy, perspicuity, perspicuousness, plainness, preciseness, quality, semitransparency, sharpness, translucence, translucency, transparence, transparency, transparentness, unambiguity, understandability, unequivocalness, visibility

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Clar"i*ty\, n. [L. claritas, fr. clarus clear: cf. F.
clart['e].]
Clearness; brightness; splendor.
      Floods, in whose more than crystal clarity, Innumerable
      virgin graces row.                       --Beaumont.
 
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