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Answer for the clue "Clearness of thought ", 7 letters:
lucency

Word definitions for lucency in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from lucent + -cy . Lucence is from late 15c.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The quality of being lucent. 2 (context medicine English) A pale area revealed in radiography, computed tomography, or similar examination technique.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lucency \Lu"cen*cy\, n. The quality of being lucent.

Usage examples of lucency.

She picked up a white polyhedron that perched there, the reflected lucency of the lamp making it glow faintly pink where her fingers touched.

Klingsor stood on the balcony, coatless, his bare forearms leaning on the iron railing, and with a touch of sullenness, his eyes hot, read the script of the stars against the pale sky and the gentle lucency on the black, lumpy cloud masses of the trees.

The two reservoirs of lucency regarded her gravely, as though from a distance.

Perhaps its yellowness tempered for his vision the icy lucency around.

Know then that in Elfland are colours more deep than are in our fields, and the very air there glows with so deep a lucency that all things seen there have something of the look of our trees and flowers in June reflected in water.

The spots of lucency were subtle, like tiny flakes of snow on a ground-glass background.