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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

... the author of "Education sentimentale" seems to have inherited in the paternal line the shrewd realism of Champagne, so de Maupassant appears to have inherited from his Lorraine ancestors their indestructible discipline and cold lucidity. ...

— Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant

... stroke that disconcerted Dearborn's campaign in 1813; and who on the present occasion drew up the instructions to Riall, and to Lieutenant-Colonel Tucker, the officer in charge of the forts, with a delightful lucidity which characterizes all papers signed by him.[316] The brigs "Star" and "Charwell" left York July 23, with a re-enforcement of four hundred men for Fort Niagara, in which post the officer commanding was directed to concentrate so many more as would ...

— Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 - Volume 2 • Alfred Thayer Mahan

... still empty, while the guests at the house were dressing for dinner, Renine handed the deed to Hortense. She seemed dazed by all that she had heard; and the thing that bewildered her even more than the relentless light shed upon her uncle's past was the miraculous insight and amazing lucidity displayed by this man: the man who for some hours had controlled events and conjured up before her eyes the actual scenes of a tragedy ...

— The Eight Strokes of the Clock • Maurice Leblanc

... received a fatal shock on realizing the change now so visible in Calyste. With that lucidity of mind which nature gives to the dying, he trembled at the thought that his race was about to perish. He said no word, but he clasped his hands and prayed to God as he sat in his chair, from which his weakness now prevented him from rising. ...

— Beatrix • Honore de Balzac

... themes here, for the last one can have two interpretations. It might mean that you had obtained an ordinary solicitor for Baby or it might mean that you had got a specially small one for yourself. It lacks, therefore, the lucidity of the best authors, but in a woman writer this may ...

— Happy Days • Alan Alexander Milne

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