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Definition of Pellucidness
1. Noun. Passing light without diffusion or distortion.
Generic synonyms: Transparence, Transparency, Transparentness
Derivative terms: Limpid, Pellucid, Pellucid
Definition of Pellucidness
1. Noun. transparency; lucidity; clarity ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pellucidness
Literary usage of Pellucidness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"... when centuries were as years, and the human frame rejoiced in the purity and
pellucidness of the atmosphere, which fed instead of corroding it, ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1889)
"Nothing that I have ever seen in my varied experience of fern-life equaled the
delicacy and pellucidness of these fronds, nurtured in the darkness and tho ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1887)
"The deeply injected mucous membrane had lost much of its pellucidness, and its
surface was closely overlaid with granulations varying in dimensions from ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1889)
"Nothing that I have ever seen in my varied experience of fern-life equaled the
delicacy and pellucidness of these fronds, nurtured in the darkness and the ..."
5. Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes (1906)
"But when Courier made it his chief aim to attain to perfect harmony and pellucidness
of style, when, praising an ancient author, he said of him that he ..."
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