Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The quality or state of being lucid; lucidity; transparency.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality of being lucid; lucidity.
WordNet 3.0
- n. free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression
Etymologies
- lucid + -ness. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But you have to streamline some of the information to make a compelling 11-minute information, and whatever is lost in fine-grain is made up for in lucidness.”
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“Another cause of anger is, as John McFall said in a rare moment of lucidness, that so many bankers treated everyone who asked them during the boom years how they were generating their money and whether the methods being used were sustainable as an idiot.”
“She felt disoriented, the pounding in her head standing between her and lucidness.”
“His statesmanship was of a high order; his oratory ingenuous, generally courteous and conciliatory, and always entertaining, from its lucidness and keenness.”
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
“I don't pretend to be able to express myself in fine language, but I feel I have the power of expressing my thoughts with simplicity and lucidness.”
“He is characterized by a lucidness of speech and a forcefulness of utterance which mark for him a towering place among the leaders of his church as a preacher and public speaker, and his logical and earnest style together with his sterling integrity guarantees to him no decline in his ascent of the higher heights of Zion.”
“In fairness, lucidness, fullness of statement, the two had a striking resemblance.”
“Then with the lucidness and precision of which few would have believed him capable, the old fellow repeated to the magistrate all that he had learned from Noel.”
“His extracts from the labors of the Academy of Science and his eulogies of the Academicians are models of lucidness under an ingenious and subtle form, rendered simple and strong by dint of wit.”
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6
“Well, God bless you and continue to give you power to write with a finger of power upon our hearts what you fail to impress in corresponding lucidness upon our outward eyesight.”
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb
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