lucidity
- noun
- /luːˈsɪdəti/
- His lucidity during the presentation impressed everyone, as he articulated complex ideas simply.
There is the unbearable lucidity of insomnia.
- There is the unbearable lucidity of insomnia.
- My freedom, my revolt, my passion come together that in that tension, that lucidity and that vast repetition.
- You wrote a post about levels of lucidity.
- She had terminal lucidity and she was actually looking forward to her transition.
Examples
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After a sleepless night, she experienced moments of lucidity when she could think clearly.
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Only one source of true lucidity illumines all the dimensions of human knowledge: the self.
Academic text (1990) -
And then, in a moment of lucidity, she asked herself,
Fiction book (2001) -
How, then, can she say things of such a terrible lucidity?
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The moments of lucidity will become the exception and eventually, go away altogether.
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She sometimes has moments of lucidity, the poor woman.
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He could still have moments of lucidity.
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But she reminded herself that she shouldn't expect lucidity when he was just recovering from a serious illness.
Fiction book (1990) -
Except for only occasional lapses into delirium, he kept his lucidity to the end.
Academic text (1995) -
Her diary does not suggest temperamental pessimism so much as an informed and reflective lucidity.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
How easy it is to understand what someone says or writes
The ease with which people understand speech or writing
How easy something is to understand, for example an explanation
A clear and simple way of saying something so people understand
A clear and easy to understand way of speaking or writing
Clear and simple writing or speech that is easy to understand
Clear speech or writing that makes ideas easy to understand
Antonyms
How Clear
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word lucidity comes from the Latin lucidus, meaning 'light' or 'clear', and shares its root with the common English word lucid. So, think of your mind being lit up by light — when your thoughts or words are easy to understand, you have lucidity.