clearness

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression
noun the quality of clear water

From Middle English clernesse; equivalent to clear + -ness.

The nearer water-edge was exquisite in its clearness. — The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life, Sinclair Lewis
There were the four lines outlined with inexorable clearness. — Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
Stevenson rewrote many times to get this easy clearness. — Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year, E. C. (Ernest Clark) Hartwell

clarity, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity, limpidity

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