lucidity
Other forms: lucidities
A good word definition should be characterized by its lucidity, or clarity. In other words, it should be clear and easy to understand — like this one.
Lucidity comes from the Latin lucidus meaning "light, bright, clear." Certainly when something is light, bright, and clear, it's ripe with the quality of lucidity. An easy-to-read textbook is characterized by lucidity. A person too can possess a quality of lucidity, one that would allow her to express ideas as clearly as possible.
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free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expressionsynonyms: clarity, clearness, limpidity, lucidness, pelluciditytypes:monosemyhaving a single meaning (absence of ambiguity) usually of individual words or phrasesfocusmaximum clarity or distinctness of an ideaexplicitnessclarity as a consequence of being explicittype of:
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a lucid state of mind; not confused
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