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Definition of Lucidity
1. Noun. Free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression.
Generic synonyms: Comprehensibility, Understandability
Specialized synonyms: Monosemy, Focus, Clearcutness, Preciseness, Perspicuity, Perspicuousness, Plainness, Unambiguity, Unequivocalness, Explicitness
Attributes: Clear, Unclear
Derivative terms: Clear, Clear, Clear, Clear, Clear, Clear, Clear, Clear, Clear, Clear, Clear, Elucidate, Elucidate, Lucid, Pellucid
Antonyms: Obscurity, Unclearness
2. Noun. A lucid state of mind; not confused.
Definition of Lucidity
1. n. The quality or state of being lucid.
Definition of Lucidity
1. Noun. The property of being lucid, lucidness. ¹
2. Noun. The state of being aware that one is dreaming ¹
3. Noun. The state of being in a lucid dream ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lucidity
1. the quality of being lucid [n -TIES]
Medical Definition of Lucidity
1. The quality or state of being lucid. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lucidity
Literary usage of Lucidity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James (1902)
"Yet what he was possessed of was real—the fact that she hadn't thrown over his
lucidity the horrid shadow ..."
2. The Forms of Discourse with an Introductory Chapter on Style by William Batchman Cairns (1896)
"These are lucidity or clearness, force, and an aesthetic quality which may be
... lucidity.—lucidity is possessed by any composition in proportion to the ..."
3. From India to the Planet Mars: A Study of a Case of Somnambulism with by Théodore Flournoy (1901)
"The above example, 2, which is the best of all, in my opinion, is still not
irreproachable. IV. lucidity All the facts of lucidity ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"His writings were characterized by great lucidity but also by a marked positiveness
and by a polemical tone which sometimes caused his assertions to be ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"... witness to a gentle but crushing reproof once administered by Faraday to a
bar- rather than in those addressed to adults, his lucidity was at its best. ..."
6. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1867)
"... the affluence of his illustrations ; the irresistible force of his logic ;
the purity and lucidity of his diction, and the fervor of his patriotism, ..."
7. The Art of the Italian Renaissance: A Handbook for Student and Travellers by Heinrich Wölfflin (1903)
"... simplification in the sense of obtaining repose encounters a simplification,
which aims at the greatest possible lucidity in the picture, ..."
8. The Nineteenth Century (1882)
"Follow the same mode of reasoning as to the quality of lucidity. The French have
a natural turn for lucidity, as we have a natural turn for seriousness. ..."
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