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Synonyms for lucidity


Grammar : Noun
Spell : loo-sid-i-tee
Phonetic Transcription : luˈsɪd ɪ ti



Définition of lucidity

Origin :
  • 1650s, "brightness," from French lucidité, from Late Latin luciditas, from lucidus (see lucid). Meaning "intellectual clarity" attested by 1851.
  • noun clearness
Example sentences :
  • It was lucidity at white heat: the last sublimation of passion.
  • Extract from : « The Long Run » by Edith Wharton
  • It has all the lucidity and charm of presentation we expect from this writer.
  • Extract from : « William Shakespeare » by John Masefield
  • Indeed, the narrative style of the Ram is lacking in lucidity!
  • Extract from : « The Olive Fairy Book » by Various
  • She met this lucidity, Miss Cutter, with but an instant's lapse.
  • Extract from : « Some Short Stories » by Henry James
  • But she was more and more all lucidity—save in so far as she was now almost all authority.
  • Extract from : « The Outcry » by Henry James
  • Let us see what Browning, subtle as few other men, thought of our lucidity.
  • Extract from : « Browning's Heroines » by Ethel Colburn Mayne
  • It left nothing to be desired, believe me, in the matter of lucidity.
  • Extract from : « April's Lady » by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
  • So intent was his eagerness that a strange kind of lucidity possessed him.
  • Extract from : « The Mark Of Cain » by Andrew Lang
  • In his final moments of lucidity he had thrust her away with loving brusqueness.
  • Extract from : « Luna Benamor » by Vicente Blasco Ibez
  • With all his lucidity of statement, Hamilton was not always ——.
  • Extract from : « English Synonyms and Antonyms » by James Champlin Fernald

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