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Definition: Clearness |
ClearnessNoun1. Free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression. 2. The quality of clear water; "when she awoke the clarity was back in her eyes". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "clearness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Clearness. The word to which the participle relates should stand out clearly. "By giving way to sin, trouble is encountered." This implies that trouble gives way to sin. The relation of the participle is made clear by saying, "By giving way to sin, we encounter trouble." "By yielding to temptation, our peace is sacrificed." This should be, "By yielding to temptation we sacrifice our peace." "A poor child was found in the streets by a wealthy and benevolent gentleman, suffering from cold and hunger." Say, "A poor child, suffering from cold and hunger, was found," etc. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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Synonyms: ClearnessSynonyms: clarity (n), limpidity (n), lucidity (n), pellucidity (n), uncloudedness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: obscureness (n), opacity (n), unclearness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Intelligibility | Noun: intelligibility; clearness, explicitness; Adjective: lucidity, comprehensibility, perspicuity; legibility, plain speaking; (manifestation); precision; gr/phonanta synetoisy/gr a word to the wise. |
Voice | Vocalization; cry; strain, utterance, prolation; exclamation, ejaculation, vociferation, ecphonesis; enunciation, articulation; articulate sound, distinctness; clearness, of articulation; stage whisper; delivery. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Clearness |
| English words defined with "clearness": Chanticleer, Claritude ♦ Equivocal chord ♦ Imperspicuity ♦ Maieutics ♦ Stormglass ♦ To make terms ♦ unwomanly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "clearness": Adverbs ♦ Birds ♦ eidetic ability, eidetic imagery ♦ Peacock ♦ QUALITY-CONTROL TESTER ♦ Receptive imagery ♦ TAKE-DOWN SORTER ♦ VARNISH INSPECTOR ♦ Whether. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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| Author | Quotation |
Hippocrates | The chief virtue that language can have a clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. |
Shakespeare | We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | He that will with any clearness speak of the dissolution of government, ought in the first place to distinguish between the dissolution of the society and the dissolution of the government. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | He had all the clearness and quickness of mind which she wanted, and he could sometimes act an ungracious, or say a severe thing |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Sister Simplice was white with a waxen clearness. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | When we turn from what was rejected to inquire what was accepted, the policy that stands out with the greatest clearness is that of economy in public expenditure with reduction and reform of taxation. |
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| "Clearness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Clearness" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 19 | 80,337 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "clearness". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Izehar | N/A | Biblical | Clearness |
| Izrahiah | N/A | Biblical | The clearness of the Lord |
| Jehaleleel | N/A | Biblical | Clearness of God |
| Nagge | N/A | Biblical | Clearness |
| Nogah | N/A | Biblical | Clearness |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
clearness committee | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "clearness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pastërti (chastity, clarity, cleanliness, cleanness, immaculacy, purity, wash house), kthjelltësi (limpidity, lucidity, perspicuity, serenity). (various references) | |
Arabic | نصاعة (purity), وضوح (boldness, candidness, clarification, clarity, distinctness, frankness, intelligibility, limpidity, lucidity, nakedness, obviousness, perspicacity, visibility), جلاء (evacuation, intelligibility, limpidity, lucidity, moving out, obviousness, visibility), الوضوح (explicitness, fairness, legibility, patency, pointedness), إشراق (brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, high rise, lightness, lucidity, luminosity, splendor, splendour, sunshine). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | яснота (clarity, crispness, definition, distinctness, fairness, limpidity, lucidity, neatness, perspicuity, vividness), отчетливост (distinctness, relief), понятност (intelligibility, plainness). (various references) | |
Chinese | 清楚 (lucid). (various references) | |
Czech | prùzraènost. (various references) | |
Danish | synsstyrke (acuteness or clearness of vision which is dependent on the sharpness of the retinal focus, sharpness of vision, the sensivity of the nervous elements and the interpretative faculty of the brain, visual acuity), synsevne (acuteness or clearness of vision which is dependent on the sharpness of the retinal focus, the sensivity of the nervous elements and the interpretative faculty of the brain, visual acuity). (various references) | |
Dutch | duidelijkheidshalve (for clarity's sake, for the clearness' sake, for the sake of clearness). (various references) | |
Finnish | selvyys (clarity, distinctness, legibility, lucidity), selko (information), selkeys (clarity, distinctness, lucidity), kirkkaus (brightness), heleys (brightness), havainnollisuus (clarity). (various references) | |
French | clarté (clarity), transparence, netteté (cleanliness, cleanness), limpidité (clarity). (various references) | |
German | deutlichkeit (clarity, conspicuousness, decidedness, distinctness, lucidness, perspicuity), anschaulichkeit (lucidity, vividness). (various references) | |
Greek | καθαρότητα (clarity, definition, purity), σαφήνεια (articulateness, clarity, definition, lucidity, perspicuity, perspicuousness, plainness, sharpness, succinctness, terseness), διαύγεια (clarity, clearanceness, limpidity, limpidness, lucence, lucency, lucidness, pellucidity, pellucidness, translucence). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ב"ירות (brightness, clarity, lucidity, luminosity, perspicuity, serenity), ב"ר (brightness, clarity), ברירות (clarity, selectivity), צלילות (clarity, lucidity, serenity), צחור (purity, snow white, white, whiteness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | világosság (brilliance, brilliancy, clarity, crispness, distinctness, light, lighting, limpidity, lucidity, neatness, perspicuity), tisztaság (brightness, chastity, clarity, cleanliness, cleanness, limpidity, lucidity, Maidenhead, neatness, purity). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ketegasan (explicitness, firmness, resoluteness), kebeningan (transparency). (various references) | |
Italian | chiarezza (brightness, clarity, obviousness, perspicuity, plainness, vividness), limpidezza (articulateness, clarity, limpidity, limpidness, lucidity, perspicuity). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 融朗 (brightness), 輝度 (brightness), 透徹 (absolutely clear, not dirty, penetration), 分明 (clear understanding). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きど (brightness, rare earth, wicket gate, wooden door), ぶ"めい (civilization, clear understanding, culture, literary fame), ぶ"みょう (clear understanding), ふ"みょう (clear understanding), ゆうろう (brightness), とうてつ (absolutely clear, not dirty, penetration). (various references) | |
Korean | 명료. (various references) | |
Manx | sullyraght (cheerfulness, limpidity, splendour), sollyssid (brightness, brilliance, gloss, illustration, lightness, luminosity, lustre, polish, radiance, resplendence, sheen, transparency), gillid (brightness, light, lustre, white, white of snow, whiteness), cleerid, baghtallys (distinctness, obviousness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | earnessclay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | aptidão visual (acuteness or clearness of vision which is dependent on the sharpness of the retinal focus, the sensivity of the nervous elements and the interpretative faculty of the brain, visual acuity). (various references) | |
Romanian | curãţenie (chastity, clarity, clean, cleaning, cleanliness, cleanness, fairness, immaculacy, modesty, purity), claritate (clarity, definition, distinctness, evidence, explicitness, fairness, limpidity, lucidity, neatness, palpability, perspicuity, simplicity, tangibility, transparency), luciditate (lucidity), limpeziciune, libertate (choice, freedom, latitude, liberty, scope). (various references) | |
Russian | ясность (clarity, definition, distinctness, lucidity, perspicuity), четкость (legibility). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bistrina (brightness, cleverness, limpidity, quickness, sagacity). (various references) | |
Spanish | claridad (articulateness, brightness, clarity, concrete, crystal, definition, explicitness, fineness, lightness, lightship, limpidness, lucidity, perspicuity, plainness). (various references) | |
Swedish | tydlighet (definition, distinctness, legibility, obviousness, patency, perspicuity, plainness), klarhet (brightness, clarity, lucidity, perspicuity, serenity), åskåslighet (perspicuity). (various references) | |
Thai | ความชั"เจน (obviousness). (various references) | |
Turkish | netlik (glibness, sharpness), berraklık (clarity, limpidity, limpidness, lucency, lucidity, lucidness, serenity), şeffaflık (transparency), açıklık (aperture, baldness, berth, clarity, clearance, definiteness, demonstrativeness, directness, distance, distinction, distinctiveness, distinctness, erectness, evidence, fairness, gap, interstice, lightness, lucidity, lucidness, manifestness, obviousness, openness, palpability, patency, perspicuity, plainness, preciseness, publicity, rift, roundness, space, spread, straightforwardness, the open, vacancy, yard). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ясність (brightness, clarity, definition, distinctness, lucidity, orotundity, perspicuity, serenity), чіткість (conciseness, concision, definition, legibility, neatness, nicety, readability, sharpness), чистота (candor, candour, chastity, clarity, cleanliness, cleanness, dew, immaculacy, purity, virginity), виразність (audibility, conciseness, concision, definition, distinctiveness, emphasis, explicitness, expression, legibility, orotundity), логічність (consistency, logic), прозорість (brightness, clarity, perspicuity, transmittance, transparency). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự sáng tỏ sự thông suốt. (various references) | |
Welsh | croywder (freshness), claerder (brightness), gloywder (brightness), eglurdeb (clarity). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Avestan | 200-600 | cithra. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Exodus Chapter 24, Verse 10 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai eidon ton topon ou eisthkei ekei o qeoV tou israhl kai ta upo touV podaV autou wsei ergon plinqou sapfeirou kai wsper eidoV sterewmatoV tou ouranou th kaqariothti |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et viderunt Deum Israhel sub pedibus eius quasi opus lapidis sapphirini et quasi caelum cum serenum est |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Stieden vp, and seen the God of Yrael, vndur the feet of him, as a werk of a saphire stoon, as heuene whanne it is bryyt. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And sawe the God of Israel, and vnder his fete as it were a brycke worde of Saphir and as it were the facyon of heauen when is it cleare, |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire-stone, and as it were the body of heaven in its clearness. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And they saw the God of Israel; and under his feet there was, as it seemed, a jewelled floor, clear as the heavens. |
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| Language | Exodus Chapter 24, Verse 10 |
| Cebuano | Ug nakakita sila sa Dios sa Israel; ug diha sa ubos sa iyang mga tiil ang daw ingon sa usa ka salog nga zafiro, ug daw sama sa langit gayud sa iyang katin-aw. |
| Croatian | Oni vidješe Boga Izraelova: podnožje njegovim nogama kao da je bilo od dragoga kamena safira, sjajem nalik na samo nebo. |
| Danish | og skuede Israels Gud; under hans Fødder var der ligesom Safirfliser, som selve Himmelen i Stråleglans. |
| Dutch | En zij zagen den God van Israel, en onder Zijn voeten als een werk van saffierstenen, en als de gestaltenis des hemels in Zijn klaarheid. |
| Finnish | Ja he näkivät Israelin Jumalan; ja hänen jalkainsa alla oli alusta, niinkuin safiirikivistä, kirkas kuin itse taivas. |
| French | Ils virent le Dieu d`Israël; sous ses pieds, c`était comme un ouvrage de saphir transparent, comme le ciel lui-même dans sa pureté. |
| German | und sahen den Gott Israels. Unter seinen Füßen war es wie ein schöner Saphir und wie die Gestalt des Himmels, wenn's klar ist. |
| Haitian Creole | Yo te wè Bondye pèp Izrayèl la. Anba pye l', te gen yon bagay plat fèt ak bèl pyè kristal ble yo rele safi. Li te klè tankou syèl la lè pa gen yon ti nwaj menm ladan li. |
| Hungarian | És láták az Izráel Istenét, és annak lábai alatt valami zafir fényû tárgy vala, és olyan tiszta, mint maga az ég. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | dan mereka melihat Allah Israel berdiri di atas sesuatu seperti lantai dari batu nilam, dan biru seperti langit yang cerah. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka kelihatanlah kepada mereka itu Allah Israel, maka di bawah kakinya adalah sesuatu, seakan-akan dari pada batu nilam perbuatannya, rupanya bagaikan langit apabila terang cuaca adanya. |
| Italian | Essi videro il Dio d'Israele: sotto i suoi piedi vi era come un pavimento in lastre di zaffiro, simile in purezza al cielo stesso. |
| Maori | Na ka kite i te Atua o Iharaira: kei raro ano i ona waewae me te mea ko te hapira i hanga hei whariki, he rite tonu ano ki te tino rangi te marama. |
| Norwegian | Og de så Israels Gud; under hans føtter var det likesom et gulv av gjennemsiktig safirsten og som himmelen selv i klarhet. |
| Rumanian | Ei au vqzut pe Dumnezeul lui Israel; subt picioarele Lui era un fel de lucrare de safir strqveziu, kntocmai ca cerul kn curqyia lui. |
| Spanish | y vieron al Dios de Israel. Debajo de sus pies había como un pavimento de zafiro, semejante en pureza al mismo cielo. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "clearness": clearnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Clearness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cleaness, cleaniess, clearies, Cluaness. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "clearness" (pronounced 'Clear"ness'): Abruptness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Acuteness, Adaptness, Adeptness, Adroitness, Adultness, Albiness, Alertness, Allness, Aloneness, Aloofness, Animoseness, Antiqueness, Apartness, Apertness, Aptness, Archness, Arguteness, Augustness, Austereness, Averseness, Badness, Baldness, Bareness, Baseness, Bigness, Blackness, Blandness, Blankness, Blindness, Blitheness, Blondness, Blueness, Bluffness, Bluntness, Boldness, Braveness, Briefness, brightness, Briskness, Broadness, Brownness, Brusqueness, Bruteness, Budgeness, Business, Calmness, Cavalierness. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cleansers. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-l-n-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: careless, casernes, cleaners, cleanser, cleanses, realness, recleans, rescales. | |
-2 letters: ancress, careens, carless, caserne, caserns, censers, cereals, classer, cleaner, cleanse, creases, crenels, earless, encases, enlaces, lancers, leaners, leasers, recanes, reclean, relaces, resales, rescale, reseals, scalene, scalers, sclerae, scleras, screens, sealers, seances, secerns, senecas. | |
-3 letters: aneles, caners, careen, caress, carles, carses, casern, ceases, censer, censes. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-l-n-r-s-s" | |
+2 letters: carefulness, centralises, clearnesses, curableness, gracileness, linecasters, necessarily, recessional, screenlands, screenplays. | |
+3 letters: carelessness, gracefulness, narcolepsies, precessional, recessionals, relandscapes, resemblances, underclasses, verticalness. | |
+4 letters: carefulnesses, comradeliness, considerables, containerless, cordialnesses, corporealness, curablenesses, execrableness, gracelessness, gracilenesses, irascibleness, lowerclassmen, lucrativeness, lyricalnesses, mercurialness, pearlescences, radicalnesses, reescalations, ribonucleases, sclerenchymas, surveillances, tractableness, translucences, underclassmen, unnecessarily, upperclassmen. | |
+5 letters: articulateness, candlesnuffers, carelessnesses, celebratedness, ceremonialisms, ceremonialists, charitableness, cholinesterase, circularnesses, clearinghouses, comparableness, cowardlinesses, creatureliness, credentialisms, creditableness, criticalnesses, gracefulnesses, intercessional, ironicalnesses, letterspacings, macronucleuses, preadolescents, reconsolidates, semiporcelains, supercalenders, supermasculine, translucencies, verticalnesses. | |
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