clarity

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This clarity is also its oldest virtue, as when Marx said of communism that it "breaks in the most radical fashion with traditional ideas" and that it will bring forth "an association in which the free development of each is the precondition for the free development of all".

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  1. noun Clearness of appearance: the clarity of the mountain air.
  2. noun Clearness of thought or style; lucidity: writes with clarity and perception.

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  • There are memories, but their clarity is the clarity of a love for the womb, warmth, and lightless swimming. —  F ;SF - vol 101 issue 03 - September 2001
  • In an attempt to achieve utter clarity, here's the Either / Or statement: —  MacDailyNews
  • Noriko's 2005 effort for Room40, Blurred in My Mirror, had a beguiling and murky atmosphere but nonetheless offered moments of stunning pop clarity -- this collaboration leans much more heavily to abstraction and the pure celebration of sound. —  Pitchfork: Latest News
  • THE TYPEFACE HELVETICA, known for its neutrality, clarity, and apparent emptiness, makes for loaded subject matter. —  artforum.com
  • Intellectual clarity is the key to seeing the right things and doing the right things. —  Mises Dailies
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  1. Middle English clarite, brightness, from Latin clāritās, clearness, from clārus, clear; see clear.

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  1. from Middle English clarite, claretee, also clerete, cleecrte, clerte, from Old French clerte, clartet, French clarté = Pr. claritat = Spanish claridad = Portuguese claridade = Italian chiarità, from Latin clarita(t-)s, clearness, from clarus, clear: see clear, a.
 

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