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perspicuity
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perspicuity \Per`spi*cu"i*ty\, n. [L. perspicuitas: cf. F. perspicuit['e].]
The quality or state of being transparent or translucent. [Obs.]
--Sir T. Browne.The quality of being perspicuous to the understanding; clearness of expression or thought.
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Sagacity; perspicacity.
Syn: Clearness; perspicuousness; plainness; distinctness; lucidity; transparency. See Clearness.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., of things; 1540s, of expressions, from Latin perspicuitas "transparency, clearness," from perspicuus, from perspicere "look through, look closely at" (see perspective).
Wiktionary
n. 1 clarity, lucidity, especially in expression; the state or characteristic of being perspicuous. 2 perspicacity; insight.
WordNet
n. clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous [syn: perspicuousness, plainness]
Usage examples of "perspicuity".
He wrote with more perspicuity than he thought, and his hot-headed democracy has done a fearful injury to his country.
He said he came from a place called Penpunt, which I thought a name so ludicrous that I called him by the name of his native village, an appellation of which he was very proud, and answered everything with more civility and perspicuity when I denominated him Penpunt, than Samuel, his own Christian name.
It seems to me very important that the statute laws should be made as plain and intelligible as possible, and be reduced to as small a compass as may consist with the fullness and precision of the will of the Legislature and the perspicuity of its language.
It was amazing how he entered with perspicuity and keenness upon every thing that occurred in conversation.
At this moment there was a solid mass of people standing staring at one particular house or shop and it took little perspicuity to guess which that was.
Mr Gazebee, using all the perspicuity which his professional education had left to him, tried to make Sir Louis understand that he had no power to do anything of the kind.
As the Roman empire was at the same time, and on every side, attacked by the blind fury of foreign invaders, and the wild ambition of domestic usurpers, we shall consult order and perspicuity, by pursuing, not so much the doubtful arrangement of dates, as the more natural distribution of subjects.
Blair, in his 38th lecture, explains and illustrates with admirable perspicuity the importance of the caesura's location in varying the flow of heroic verse.