Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Clearness of appearance: the clarity of the mountain air.
- n. Clearness of thought or style; lucidity: writes with clarity and perception.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Clearness; brightness; splendor.
Wiktionary
- n. The state, or measure of being clear, either in appearance, thought or style; lucidity.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Clearness; brightness; splendor.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the quality of clear water
- n. free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression
Etymologies
- Middle English claritee, from Old French clarté, from Latin claritas, from clarus ("clear"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English clarite, brightness, from Latin clāritās, clearness, from clārus, clear; see clear. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“With the high-res screens on the newer Palms (like my Zire 71), the clarity is as good as or better than paper.”
“Clarity is not talking about a thing or a quality, which is what the English word clarity would imply.”
Mahamudra and the Four Noble Truths ��� 1 The Four Noble Truths in Terms of Mental Activity
“In other words, the Administration's mantra that its bill would bring "clarity" is exactly backwards.”
“Last week, the Obama administration fired back with its strongest response to date, saying the industry's call for "clarity" is code for wanting EPA to just back off.”
“More importantly, however, assuming intellectual and moral clarity is being sought, neither one needs to be predicated upon the other; each issue is separate, unto itself.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Do ‘Family Values’ Weaken Families?”
“If the clarity is that bad your going to wnat to use something that is brightly colored and obnoxiously loud.”
There is a lake near my house that is full of walleye, 2 lb. + crappie and large mouth bass.
“Real experience and clarity is the kind of heads up containing good indicators.”
“Players like clarity from a coach, and it's fair to say there was a haze that settled in between Therrien and his players.”
“Being away from the fray did allow for time to reflect, organize thoughts, and gain clarity about many things.”
““Upper case letters are clearer: Mind your Ps and Qs. But this increase in clarity can be negligible: Dot your Is.””
Plurals of acronyms, abbreviations, initialisms and single letters
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘clarity’.
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EN - academic vocabulary
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henryar's list
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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Clear and simple as the truth
Classic style
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Unfamiliar Words
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Words that have been used as baby names, including virtue names, nature names, place names, etc.
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (C)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
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The Last Werewolf
This novel by Glen Duncan, aside from being a ripping yarn and beautifully written, is just littered with words that I had to look up and discover that often his use of the word not only fitted per...
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ESL Academic Word List
This is a list of academic words for students learning English as a Second or Foreign Language. It includes 570 word families that often appear in academic texts. It does not include words that are...
collapse, depression, colleagues, invoked, levy, nonetheless, likewise, so-called, ongoing, conceived, forthcoming, integrity and 558 more...
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Rilakkuma's list
The Velvetine Ruffians
gamine, waif, ruffian, villain, rake, libertine, velvetine, luminary, nom de plume, street urchin, epicurean, eventide and 256 more...
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Favorite Words
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Dain's Words
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for clarity.
Louises When Jake leaped, his trajectory made an arc that framed Grainer for me in weird vividness. ... The image had the remote clarity of a religious icon. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan.
Mar 30, 2012
Louises The first inkling of animal clarity was already there, a kind of vicious joy in the power that was to come up through the soles of my feet into my ankles, shins, hips, elbows, shoulders. If I live that long. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan.
Mar 27, 2012
Louises "I like you. I really do. You've got the clarity. So many of the fuckers I deal with are just blundering around in a fog." From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan. Mar 23, 2012