lucidity

lu·cid·i·ty

noun \lü-ˈsi-də-tē\

Definition of LUCIDITY

1

: clearness of thought or style

2

: a presumed capacity to perceive the truth directly and instantaneously : clairvoyance

Examples of LUCIDITY

1. <the lucidity of the recipe should ensure a minimum of confusion>

First Known Use of LUCIDITY

1810

Related to LUCIDITY

Synonyms: clarity, explicitness, simplicity, lucidness, perspicuity, perspicuousness

Antonyms: obscureness, obscurity, unclarity

Related Words: incision, incisiveness; directness, forthrightness, openness, straightforwardness; readability, readableness; comprehensibility, intelligibility, legibility

Near Antonyms: ambiguity, ambiguousness, equivocalness, equivocation, inscrutability, inscrutableness, obliqueness, obliquity, opacity, opaqueness; impenetrability, incomprehensibility, incomprehensibleness, unintelligibility, unintelligibleness; circuitousness, deviousness, indirectness, indistinctness; dimness, disjointedness, incoherence; faintness, fuzziness, muddiness, nebulousness, vagueness

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Other Occult Terms

augury, censor, invocation, metempsychosis, mojo, numinous, preternatural, weird, wraith

Rhymes with LUCIDITY

acidity, aridity, avidity, cupidity, flaccidity, floridity, fluidity, frigidity, gelidity, gravidity, humidity, hybridity, limpidity, liquidity, lividity, morbidity, placidity, rabidity, rancidity, rapidity, rigidity, sapidity, solidity, stupidity, tepidity, timidity, torridity, turbidity, turgidity, validity, vapidity, viridity, viscidity