lucidity

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In the lack of lucidity, which is supposed to distinguish English folk, our middle-class censores morum strain at the gnat of a privately circulated translation of an Arabic classic, while they daily swallow the camel of higher education based upon minute study of Greek and Latin literature.

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  1. The state of being lucid, in any sense of that word; lucidness; especially, clearness of conception or expression; intellectual transparency. He [Voltaire] looked on things straight; and he had a marvelous logic and lucidity. M. Arnold, Mixed Essays, p. 169. Thought-transference is out of the question, and M. Richet has recourse to the theory of a sort of clairvoyance to which he gives the generic name of lucidity, a vision in which the ordinary optical impediments no longer act as such. Science, XII. 47.
  2. Synonyms Clearness, Plainness, etc. See perspicuity.

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  • So far as the evidence to hand can be trusted, this stimulative stage, which varies much in races and in individuals, is succeeded by a certain exaltation and mental lucidity--I seem to discern some signs of it in our young friend here--which, after an appreciable interval, turns to coma, deepening rapidly into death. —  The First Men In The Moon
  • Enough, perhaps, for him to relive it in his delirium and delude himself that one of the faces bending over him in those few moments of consciousness and lucidity was the face of Irmgard Grobel. —  Shroud for a Nightingale
  • Speaker Reed also made a great impression upon me as a man of honesty, lucidity, and force. —  Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, V2
  • They leave moments of lucidity, and one moment is all it takes, ; K'rrik purred as he approached. —  J
  • Conversely, low-level lucidity is associated with a state that "the dreamer is not fully aware that he is dreaming and that the environment is the sole creation of his mind, while the dreamer may have the ability to control his dream and do activities, physical threats may still be perceived as completely real." —  Serendip's Exchange -
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  1. = French lucidité = Italian lucidità, from Latin as if *lucidita(t-)s, from lucidus, light, bright, clear: see lucid.
 

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