Word Meanings - PERSPICUITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The quality or state of being transparent or translucent. Sir T. Browne. 2. The quality of being perspicuous to the understanding; clearness of expression or thought. 3. Sagacity; perspicacity. Syn. -- Clearness; perspicuousness; plainness;

Additional info about word: PERSPICUITY

1. The quality or state of being transparent or translucent. Sir T. Browne. 2. The quality of being perspicuous to the understanding; clearness of expression or thought. 3. Sagacity; perspicacity. Syn. -- Clearness; perspicuousness; plainness; distinctness; lucidity; transparency. See Clearness.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PERSPICUITY)

• Distinctness
• Clearness
• plainness
• conspicuousness
• perspicuity

Related words: (words related to PERSPICUITY)

• DISTINCTNESS
  1. The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things. The soul's . . . distinctness from the body. Cudworth. 2. Nice discrimination; hence, clearness; precision; as, he stated
• PERSPICUITY
  1. The quality or state of being transparent or translucent. Sir T. Browne. 2. The quality of being perspicuous to the understanding; clearness of expression or thought. 3. Sagacity; perspicacity. Syn. -- Clearness; perspicuousness; plainness;
• CLEARNESS
  The quality or state of being clear. Syn. -- Clearness, Perspicuity. Clearness has reference to our ideas, and springs from a distinct conception of the subject under consideration. Perspicuity has reference to the mode of expressing our ideas and
• PLAINNESS
  The quality or state of being plain.
• INDISTINCTNESS
  The quality or condition of being indistinct; want of definiteness; dimness; confusion; as, the indistinctness of a picture, or of comprehension; indistinctness of vision.
• IMPERSPICUITY
  Want of perspicuity or clearness; vaguness; ambiguity.