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    LIMPIDITY

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Passing light without diffusion or distortionplay

    Synonyms:

    limpidity; pellucidity; pellucidness

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

    Hypernyms ("limpidity" is a kind of...):

    transparence; transparency; transparentness (the quality of being clear and transparent)

    Derivation:

    limpid (transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expressionplay

    Synonyms:

    clarity; clearness; limpidity; lucidity; lucidness; pellucidity

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

    Hypernyms ("limpidity" is a kind of...):

    comprehensibility; understandability (the quality of comprehensible language or thought)

    Attribute:

    clear (readily apparent to the mind)

    unclear (not clear to the mind)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "limpidity"):

    monosemy (having a single meaning (absence of ambiguity) usually of individual words or phrases)

    focus (maximum clarity or distinctness of an idea)

    clearcutness; preciseness (clarity as a consequence of precision)

    perspicuity; perspicuousness; plainness (clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous)

    unambiguity; unequivocalness (clarity achieved by the avoidance of ambiguity)

    explicitness (clarity as a consequence of being explicit)

    Derivation:

    clear (easily deciphered)

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