patency

Other forms: patencies

Definitions of patency
  1. noun
    the property of being easy to see and understand
    synonyms: noticeability, noticeableness, obviousness
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    types:
    apparency, apparentness
    the property of being apparent
    blatancy
    the property of being both obvious and offensive
    predominance, predomination
    the quality of being more noticeable than anything else
    type of:
    conspicuousness
    high visibility
  2. noun
    the openness (lack of obstruction) of a bodily passage or duct
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    type of:
    openness
    without obstructions to passage or view
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