Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being limpid; clearness; transparency; lucidity.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Quality of being limpid; limpidity.

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  • noun The property of being limpid, clarity.

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Examples

  • Some approach definitions; some are like free-floating haikus; some are, for all their word-by-word limpidness, impenetrable.

    The Real Thing; The Concise Dictionary of Dress 2010

  • A later work with that same limpidness is the "Pie Jesu" from Fauré's Requiem.

    The 10 best classical tear-jerkers Fiona Maddocks 2010

  • A crystal-clear limpidness without a break in continuity – that is the essential nature (of the mind).

    Mahamudra Eliminating the Darkness of Unawareness ��� Part Three: Vipashyana Meditation the Ninth Karmapa Wangchug-dorjey 2008

  • We cherish sensations in themselves, when they consist of elements like limpidness of color and lucidity of sound.

    Human Traits and their Social Significance Irwin Edman

  • Now the wind has blown it clear as blue limpidness; now scattered flakes appear; now it is deep blue; now pale; now it tinges darkly; now it is a layer of cream.

    Walking-Stick Papers Robert Cortes Holliday

  • His page has the fertility of a well-cultivated pastoral region, the limpidness of a mountain brook, the music of our unstudied songsters, the elusive charm of the blue beyond the summer clouds; it has, at times, the ruggedness of a shelving rock, combined with the grace of its nodding columbines.

    Our Friend John Burroughs Barrus, Clara, 1864-1931 1914

  • Two or three phrases, however, show all the limpidness and ease for which he gained fame subsequently.

    A Study Of Hawthorne Lathrop, George P 1876

  • Two or three phrases, however, show all the limpidness and ease for which he gained fame subsequently.

    A Study of Hawthorne George Parsons Lathrop 1874

  • This one had: she had the secret of lake waters under rock, unfathomable in limpidness.

    Diana of the Crossways — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

  • This one had: she had the secret of lake waters under rock, unfathomable in limpidness.

    Diana of the Crossways — Complete George Meredith 1868

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