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perspicuity
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synonyms: perspicacity, sagacity ???
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Definition:1. The quality or state of being transparent or translucent. [Obs.]2. The quality of being perspicuous to the understanding; clearness of expression or thought.3. Sagacity; perspicacity.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Joe recited this couplet with such manifest pride and careful perspicuity, that I asked him if he had made it himself.
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he obeyed his daughter, giving her credit for a certain amount of perspicuity and cleverness.
Arnold Bennett. The Grand Babylon Hôtel (1902)
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At once it was as though a wall had sprung up to hide from me a part of the life of Gilberte, as though an evil genius had spirited my friend far away. In a language that we know, we have substituted for the opacity of sounds, the perspicuity of ideas.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 2]
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