perspicuity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: per=spi=cu=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

perspicuity, n. [L. perspicuitas: cf. F. perspicuité.].

•  The quality or state of being transparent or translucent.  Sir T. Browne.  [1913 Webster]
•  The quality of being perspicuous to the understanding; clearness of expression or thought.  [1913 Webster]
•  Sagacity; perspicacity.  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Clearness; perspicuousness; plainness; distinctness; lucidity; transparency. See Clearness.

THESAURUS

perspicuity

Atticism, acuity, acumen, acuteness, apparentness, apperception, appropriateness, astuteness, chasteness, chastity, clarity, classicalism, classicism, clear sight, clear-cutness, clearness, cogency, coherence, color vision, comeliness, cone vision, connectedness, consistency, correctness, crystal-clearness, crystallinity, day vision, daylight vision, definition, dignity, directness, discernment, discrimination, distinction, distinctness, ease, elegance, elegancy, evidence, evidentness, explicitness, eye, eye-mindedness, eyesight, farseeingness, farsight, farsightedness, felicitousness, felicity, field of view, field of vision, finish, fittingness, flow, flowing periods, fluency, foresight, foresightedness, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility, horizon, incisiveness, insight, intelligibility, keen sight, ken, limpidity, longheadedness, longsightedness, lucidity, manifestness, naturalness, neatness, night vision, obviousness, openness, openness to sight, overtness, palpability, patentness, pellucidity, penetration, perception, perceptiveness, percipience, peripheral field, peripheral vision, perspicaciousness, perspicacity, perspicuousness, photopia, plain English, plain speech, plain style, plainness, polish, power of sight, propriety, providence, purity, purview, quick sight, range, refinement, restraint, rod vision, sagaciousness, sagacity, scope, scotopia, seeing, seemliness, sense of sight, sensibility, sight, sightedness, simplicity, smoothness, straightforwardness, structure, sweep, tangibility, taste, tastefulness, terseness, transparency, transpicuity, trenchancy, twilight vision, unadorned style, unaffectedness, unambiguousness, unequivocalness, unmistakableness, unobstructed vision, unquestionability, visibility, vision, visual acuity, visual field, visual sense

ROGET THESAURUS

perspicuity

Perspicuity

N perspicuity, perspicuousness, plain speaking, definiteness, definition, exactness, explicitness, lucidness, lucid, explicit, exact.

Intelligibility

N intelligibility, clearness, explicitness, lucidity, comprehensibility, perspicuity, legibility, plain speaking, precision, phonanta synetoisy, a word to the wise, intelligible, clear, clear as day, clear as noonday, lucid, perspicuous, transpicuous, luminous, transparent, easily understood, easy to understand, for the million, intelligible to the meanest capacity, popularized, plain, distinct, explicit, positive, definite, graphic, expressive, illustrative, unambiguous, unequivocal, unmistakable, unconfused, legible, recognizable, obvious, in plain terms, in plain words, in plain English, he that runs may read.