n.
- The quality of being perspicuous; clearness and lucidity: "He was at pains to insist on the perspicuity of what he wrote" (Lionel Trilling).
- Perspicacity.
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perspicuity
American Heritage Dictionary:
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- The quality of being clear and easy to perceive or understand: clarity, clearness, distinctness, limpidity, limpidness, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity, pellucidness, perspicuousness, plainness. See clear/unclear.
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IN BRIEF: Clarity of expression; lucidity.
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts.
— Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
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