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PATENCY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property of being easy to see and understand
Synonyms:
noticeability; noticeableness; obviousness; patency
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("patency" is a kind of...):
conspicuousness (high visibility)
Attribute:
noticeable (capable or worthy of being noticed)
unnoticeable (not noticeable; not drawing attention)
obvious (easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind)
unobvious (not immediately apparent)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "patency"):
apparency; apparentness (the property of being apparent)
blatancy (the property of being both obvious and offensive)
predominance; predomination (the quality of being more noticeable than anything else)
Derivation:
patent (make open to sight or notice)
patent (clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The openness (lack of obstruction) of a bodily passage or duct
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("patency" is a kind of...):
openness (without obstructions to passage or view)
Derivation:
patent ((of a bodily tube or passageway) open; affording free passage)
