clearness

[ UK /klˈi‍ənəs/ ]
[ US /ˈkɫɪɹnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression
  2. the quality of clear water
    when she awoke the clarity was back in her eyes
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How To Use clearness In A Sentence

  • Clearness of statement is more important than beauty of language.
  • st. ixSome overcolour, some overpressure of the phrase remains here: so in st. xiii: —Keats has not yet reached the self-restraint and clearness of his latest work. Notes
  • After a few days, one withdraws the barbotine surplus to find the clearness of the drawing, it is the most critical phase.
  • However, there are some contradictions and conflicts during the patent exam practice and legal practice, which was the result of unclearness of the current specified provisions.
  • No avocations of professional labour will make him abandon their wholesome study; in the midst of a thousand cares he will find an hour to recur to his boyish lessons -- to reperuse them in the pleasurable consciousness of old associations, and in the clearness of manly judgment, and to apply them to himself and to the world with superior profit. The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson
  • And Buller, as he noticed this, remembered, with the clearness afforded by funk spoken of above, that an uncle of his, who was an ardent homeopathist, had an explanation of his own of the old Promethean myth. Dr. Jolliffe's Boys
  • But whither goes that vein? whither flows it? wherefore runs it into that torrent of pitch bubbling forth those monstrous tides of foul lustfulness, into which it is wilfully changed and transformed, being of its own will precipitated and corrupted from its heavenly clearness? The Confessions
  • Jenny Lind's had incomparably more power and more at all times in reserve; but it had a shade of that same veiled quality in its lowest tones, consistently with the same (but much more) ripeness and sweetness, and perfect freedom from the crudeness often called clearness, as they rise. Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum
  • I can NOT understand a determinism like yours, which rejoices in clearness and distinctions, and which is at the same time alive to moral ones -- unless it be that the latter are purely speculative for it, and have little to do with its real feeling of the way life is made up. Familiar Letters of William James I
  • Its advantages to him seemed to lie primarily in the fact that it can lead to much greater clearness and precision.
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