What is "obvious-ness"

Obvious \Ob"vi*ous\, a. [L. obvius; ob (see Ob-) + via way. See Voyage.]

1. Opposing; fronting. [Obs.]

   To the evil turn My obvious breast.
   --Milton.

2. Exposed; subject; open; liable. [Obs.] ``Obvious to dispute.''
   --Milton.

3. Easily discovered, seen, or understood; readily perceived by the eye or the intellect; plain; evident; apparent; as, an obvious meaning; an obvious remark.

   Apart and easy to be known they lie, Amidst the heap, and obvious to the eye.
   --Pope.

   Syn: Plain; clear; evident. See Manifest. [1913 Webster] -- Ob"vi*ous*ly, adv. -- Ob"vi*ous-ness, n.