perspicuity
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noun
- Clarity, lucidity, especially in expression; the state or characteristic of being perspicuous.
- Perspicacity; insight.
- Transparency; translucence.
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Borrowed from Late Latin perspicuitās (“evidentness”, “self-evidency”, literally “transparency”, “clarity”, “lucidity”), from Latin perspicuus (“clear”, “transparent”; “evident”); compare perspicacity and the French perspicuité. By surface analysis, perspicuous + -ity.
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