Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Clearness of appearance.
- noun Clearness of thought or style; lucidity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Clearness; brightness; splendor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Clearness; brightness; splendor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state, or measure of being
clear , either inappearance ,thought orstyle ;lucidity .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of clear water
- noun free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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With the high-res screens on the newer Palms (like my Zire 71), the clarity is as good as or better than paper.
Abintra 2004
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Clarity is not talking about a thing or a quality, which is what the English word clarity would imply.
Mahamudra and the Four Noble Truths ��� 1 The Four Noble Truths in Terms of Mental Activity 2003
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In other words, the Administration's mantra that its bill would bring "clarity" is exactly backwards.
Balkinization 2006
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Last week, the Obama administration fired back with its strongest response to date, saying the industry's call for "clarity" is code for wanting EPA to just back off.
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Last week, the Obama administration fired back with its strongest response to date, saying the industry's call for "clarity" is code for wanting EPA to just back off.
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If the clarity is that bad your going to wnat to use something that is brightly colored and obnoxiously loud.
There is a lake near my house that is full of walleye, 2 lb. + crappie and large mouth bass. 2009
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Real experience and clarity is the kind of heads up containing good indicators.
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Real experience and clarity is the kind of heads up containing good indicators.
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More importantly, however, assuming intellectual and moral clarity is being sought, neither one needs to be predicated upon the other; each issue is separate, unto itself.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Do ‘Family Values’ Weaken Families?” 2010
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If the clarity is that bad your going to wnat to use something that is brightly colored and obnoxiously loud.
There is a lake near my house that is full of walleye, 2 lb. + crappie and large mouth bass. 2009
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pureness.
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January 15, 2012
Louises commented on the word clarity
"I like you. I really do. You've got the clarity. So many of the fuckers I deal with are just blundering around in a fog." From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan.
March 23, 2012
Louises commented on the word clarity
The first inkling of animal clarity was already there, a kind of vicious joy in the power that was to come up through the soles of my feet into my ankles, shins, hips, elbows, shoulders. If I live that long. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan.
March 27, 2012
Louises commented on the word clarity
When Jake leaped, his trajectory made an arc that framed Grainer for me in weird vividness. ... The image had the remote clarity of a religious icon. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan.
March 30, 2012