What is "vividness"

Usage examples of "vividness".

Because Nabokov does not require the steady accompaniment of a fictional setting, because the details appear in a flash without antecedent or context or function except their own vividness, each description seems a miracle of creativity and stands out as if caught by the oblique morning sun.

Suddenly, the memory of Andawyr and the strange horror that had surrounded him, returned with an appalling vividness.

Despite himself, now, on the Biter, he could see her form, and the vividness of it filled him with shame anew.

Clouds seemed to break from his mind and with startling vividness he recalled the shadow-play of his conversation with the man in the ceiba tree and the alien, unintelligible replies.

He never remembered any white children--but there were inevitably a dozen pickaninnies streaming in his trail, passionate admirers whom he kept in tow by the vividness of his imagination and the amount of trouble he was always getting them in and out of.

The factors that strengthen these tendencies or connections are the frequency, recency, primacy, and vividness of experience.

After the list is finished, let each student try to find out what the determining factor was in each case, whether primacy, frequency, recency, vividness, or mental set.

On he jogged steadily, and by and by began to be entertained by his own thoughts as pleasantly as a poet or romancist is entertained by the fancies which come and go in the brain with all the vividness of dramatic reality.

The endless tableau of the lunar orb - dead now, whatever her past was, and cold as the unhuman sepulchres she bears amid the ruin of dusty centuries older than men - and the sea - astir, perhaps, with some unkenned life, some forbidden sentience - confronted me with a horrible vividness.

Similarly, if introspection is to become a reliable means of investigating the mind, researchers must be able to observe mental phenomena with a high degree of attentional stability and vividness.

However, while one focuses the attention on an unchanging object, there is the possibility of dementia setting in if one allows the potency of attentional vividness to wane.

In this form of training, two qualities must be cultivated: attentional stability and vividness.

The degree of attentional vividness corresponds to the ratio of moments of ascertaining to non-ascertaining cognition: the higher the frequency of ascertaining perception, the greater the vividness.

In order to develop attentional stability and vividness, two mental faculties must be cultivated: mindfulness and introspection.

At that time, if one does not continue striving to enhance the power of attentional vividness, one may fall into a complacent, pseudo-meditative trance, which may result in dementia.