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Lucidity

noun

Free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression. Synonyms: clarity, clearness, limpidity, lucidness, pellucidity. Antonyms: obscurity, unclearness.

A lucid state of mind; not confused.

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"Lucidity" Quotes from Famous Books

... so soon how much I appreciated the opportunity of looking into hers? I could only assent in general to the proposition that there were certainly for every one such yearnings, and even such faces; and I felt the crisis demand all my lucidity, all my wisdom. "Oh yes, I'm a student of physiognomy. Do you mean," I pursued, "that you've a passion ...

— The Death of the Lion • Henry James

... this day with Mr. Bertie Tremaine. He was a frequent guest there, and still was the editor of the "Precursor," though it sometimes baffled all that lucidity of style for which he was celebrated to reconcile the conduct of the party, of which the "Precursor" was alike the oracle and organ, with the opinions with which that now well-established journal first attempted to direct and illuminate the public mind. It seemed to the editor that ...

— Endymion • Benjamin Disraeli

... might have happened in my absence. To my enormous relief, he had improved greatly in the interval. His appearance was as ghastly as ever, but all trace of delirium had left him and he spoke in a feeble voice, it is true, but with even more than his usual crispness and lucidity. ...

— The Adventure of the Dying Detective • Arthur Conan Doyle

... should think that I was mad, absolutely mad, if I were not conscious that I knew my state, if I could not fathom it and analyze it with the most complete lucidity. I should, in fact, be a reasonable man laboring under a hallucination. Some unknown disturbance must have been excited in my brain, one of those disturbances which physiologists of the present day try to note and to fix precisely, and that disturbance must have ...

— Selected Writings of Guy de Maupassant • Guy de Maupassant

... not lessened. They prove at any rate his deep sagacity and wonderfully clear mind. No one perhaps, who has studied these questions since Leonardo, has combined with a scientific mind anything like the artistic delicacy of perception which gives interest and lucidity to ...

— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci

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