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clarity noun [ ˈklarɪti ]

• the quality of being coherent and intelligible.
• "for the sake of clarity, each of these strategies is dealt with separately"
Similar: lucidity, lucidness, clearness, perspicuity, intelligibility, comprehensibility, coherence, simplicity, plainness, explicitness, lack of ambiguity, precision,
Opposite: obscurity, vagueness,
• the quality of transparency or purity.
• "the crystal clarity of water"
Similar: limpidity, limpidness, clearness, transparency, translucence, pellucidity, glassiness, purity, transpicuousness,
Opposite: opacity, murkiness,
Origin: Middle English (in the sense ‘glory, divine splendour’): from Latin claritas, from clarus ‘clear’. The current sense dates from the early 17th century.


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