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Grammar : Noun
Spell : kleer
Phonetic Transcription : klɪər



Définition of clearness

Origin :
  • late 13c., "bright," from Old French cler "clear" (of sight and hearing), "light, bright, shining; sparse" (12c., Modern French clair), from Latin clarus "clear, loud," of sounds; figuratively "manifest, plain, evident," in transferred use, of sights, "bright, distinct;" also "illustrious, famous, glorious" (source of Italian chiaro, Spanish claro), from PIE *kle-ro-, from root *kele- (2) "to shout" (see claim (v.)).
  • The sense evolution involves an identification of the spreading of sound and the spreading of light (cf. English loud, used of colors; German hell "clear, bright, shining," of pitch, "distinct, ringing, high"). Of complexion, from c.1300; of the weather, from late 14c.; of meanings or explanations, "manifest to the mind, comprehensible," c.1300. (An Old English word for this was sweotol "distinct, clear, evident.") Sense of "free from encumbrance," apparently nautical, developed c.1500. Phrase in the clear attested from 1715. Clear-sighted is from 1580s (clear-eyed is from 1529s); clear-headed is from 1709.
  • noun brightness
Example sentences :
  • Does the intensity of our love equal the clearness of our discoveries?
  • Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I » by Francis Augustus Cox
  • Any turbidness or impurity in the water will injure the clearness of the sweetmeats.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • It is the nature of the thing, not the clearness of its outline, that determines its operation.
  • Extract from : « A Dish Of Orts » by George MacDonald
  • As a Judge he was noted for sound logic, and the clearness of his decisions.
  • Extract from : « Cleveland Past and Present » by Maurice Joblin
  • This clearness and order of arrangement was, he observed, the glory of Luther's writings.
  • Extract from : « Albert Durer » by T. Sturge Moore
  • "I have marvelled often at the clearness of your soups, Marchesa," said the Colonel.
  • Extract from : « The Cook's Decameron: A Study in Taste: » by Mrs. W. G. Waters
  • The sky was already a pale blue and of the clearness of crystal.
  • Extract from : « Alexander's Bridge and The Barrel Organ » by Willa Cather and Alfred Noyes
  • Why indeed, he said, when any name will do which expresses the thought of the mind with clearness?
  • Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
  • We say I will walk abroad, and the truth will take form and clearness to me.
  • Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • (Compare the hypotheses and images of Rep.) It is true that it does not attain to the clearness of ideas.
  • Extract from : « Timaeus » by Plato

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