Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality of being conspicuous; obviousness.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Conspieuousness.
- noun Brightness; luminosity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The state or quality of being clear or bright; brightness; conspicuousness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The property of being clearly
discernible - noun The state or quality of being
clear orbright ;brightness ;conspicuousness .
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Examples
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There's a theory that motorcycles (and the clothes you wear) should be garish, bright colors for 'conspicuity'.
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Background color (trees, desert, etc.), weather conditions (rain, fog, snow), and daylight have a profound effect on conspicuity.
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One of them was to increase the conspicuity of the aircrafts to make them more visible to each other, including such things as high-visibility blade paint schemes for the blades of the helicopter, or high-visibility anti-collision lights on their aircraft.
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He never moved but what, if there was any danger of his conduct being misconstrued or ill-reported, he looked carefully about him and counted the cost of every inch of conspicuity.
Sister Carrie 2004
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Elevation from an humble condition to conspicuity and rank, bespeaks superior personal merit; and to many of those who figure in, what is called, high life, it is to be feared that the bare mention of personal merit, would look like an indirect reproach.
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Is there not rather just cause for wonder that he did not speedily sink to the bottom, but that, on the contrary, he kept afloat, advanced to conspicuity and fame, and would, in all probability, have ultimately come with flying colours to a mooring in the port of honour and happiness, if Death had not unexpectedly arrested him in his progress.
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He became the Kayia or lieutenant to Yusuf on the galley of that corsair's command and seconded him in half a score of engagements with an ability and a conspicuity that made him swiftly famous throughout the ranks of the Mediterranean rovers.
The Sea-Hawk Rafael Sabatini 1912
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He never moved but what, if there was any danger of his conduct being misconstrued or ill-reported, he looked carefully about him and counted the cost of every inch of conspicuity.
Sister Carrie: a Novel Theodore Dreiser 1908
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He never moved but what, if there was any danger of his conduct being misconstrued or ill-reported, he looked carefully about him and counted the cost of every inch of conspicuity.
Sister Carrie 1900
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He never moved but what, if there was any danger of his conduct being misconstrued or ill-reported, he looked carefully about him and counted the cost of every inch of conspicuity.
Sister Carrie 1900
paulatthehug commented on the word conspicuity
I came across this word for the first time today in the Abstract for a PhD at Nottingham University <i>The use of conspicuity aids by cyclists and the risk of crashes involving other road users: a population based case-control study</i> which came to the (surprising, to me at least) conclusion that:
November 29, 2013