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clearness

clearness

1 1.4
How easy something is to understand, for example an explanation
  • noun
  • /ˈklɪrnəs/
translation icon : claridad
  • The report's clearness ensured that all team members understood the project's goals.

It says, quote when out alone, seeking intellectual clearness.

Examples

  • Lao Tzu had asked us to use the light that is in us to recover our natural clearness of sight.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Her speech was filled with clearness, allowing the audience to grasp her ideas without confusion.

  • Further, the clearness of the sky gave no clue to its source.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • Some people hear their own inner voices... with great clearness... and they live by what they hear.

  • And suddenly I'm beginning to see with awful clearness.

  • He might see, perhaps, one or two points with unusual clearness, but in so doing, he necessarily lost sight of the matter as a whole.

    Academic text (1999)
  • The blueness of her veins accentuated the clearness of her smooth skin.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • On a phonograph they had set up, they played recorded addresses by President Woodrow Wilson, the secretary of the interior, and the acting superintendent of Indian affairs, whose voices a news reporter commented could be heard with "startling clearness."

    Academic text (1998)
  • The clearness of the instructions made it easy for everyone to follow along.

Synonyms

clarity
vsclearness
152 3.0

How easy it is to understand what someone says or writes

is a broader idea about being easy to perceive or interpret
transparency
vsclearness
146 3.7

Being clear so people can see or understand how something works

is the general quality of being easy to perceive or interpret
lucidity
vsclearness
7 6.0

Clear thinking or speech that is easy to understand

covers general ease of perception or interpretation rather than thought clarity
obviousness
vsclearness
3 2.9

The quality of being easy to see or understand

covers broader ease of perception, not just obvious visibility
intelligibility
vsclearness
1 6.5

The ease with which people understand speech or writing

is not limited to language but covers general perceptual clarity
explicitness
vsclearness
1 6.4

A clear and exact way of saying something so people cannot misunderstand

is the general ease of perception rather than deliberate explicit wording
plainness
vsclearness
1 3.7

Being clear and easy to understand

is more general, covering any form of easy perception or interpretation
perspicuity
vsclearness
  • Formal
1 9.5

A clear and simple way of saying something so people understand

is the general quality of being easy to perceive or understand
lucidness
vsclearness
4.4

A clear and easy to understand way of speaking or writing

refers more generally to being easy to perceive or interpret
pellucidity
vsclearness
  • Formal
9.9

Clear speech or writing that makes ideas easy to understand

is broader, covering any kind of easy perception or interpretation
limpidity
vsclearness
7.4

Clear and simple writing or speech that is easy to understand

is the wider condition of being easy to perceive or interpret
understandability
vsclearness
3.4

How easy something is to follow and make sense of

is the simple state of being easy to perceive or interpret
unambiguity
vsclearness
6.7

A clear meaning that leaves no doubt

is broader, applying to general ease of perception and understanding
definitude
vsclearness
9.3

A state of being clear and exact so there is no doubt

is the simpler quality of being easy to perceive or interpret
clearcutness
vsclearness
8.8

How clear and easy to understand something is

is the broader notion of ease in perception or understanding
transparentness
vsclearness
5.6

How clear something is so you can see through it

focuses more on overall ease of understanding rather than physical see-through quality
apparentness
vsclearness
6.8

How easy something is to see or understand

is concerned with general understanding, not only visual visibility

Antonyms

389 1.8

A time when things are not organized and people do not know what to think or do

57 6.3

A lack of clear meaning that allows people to understand it in different ways

A situation when something is hard to understand

How Clear

lucidity
7 6.0
clearness
1 1.4
ambiguity
57 6.3
vagueness
8 6.1

Surface Forms

clearness singular
clearnesses plural

Morphology

clearness = clear (transparent) = clear + ness

Standard derivation: '-ness' turns the adjective 'clear' into a noun denoting the state or quality of being clear.

Etymology

Clearness comes from the simple word clear, from Latin clarus meaning 'bright', with the ending -ness to make a noun. Just like the word clarity, it uses the idea of light making things easy to see, so clearness means ideas, speech, or air that are easy to understand or notice.