CLARITY


Meaning of CLARITY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

absolute

She knew now, consciously at last and with absolute clarity , why she had always reacted so intensely to Luke Scott.

I knew with absolute clarity that this was not what I wanted.

Together they must serve to make a consistent and powerful message that comes across with absolute clarity .

great

That inexcusable act probably speaks with greater clarity than anything I could say about his true character.

Distant bodies like the Pleiades were recorded with great clarity .

Like all her writings, Children's Minds combines great clarity and lucidity of expression with original and rigorous thought.

It was hoped that further discussion in a reflective setting would add greater clarity to the issues.

The Prime Minister My hon. Friend puts his point with great clarity and in some detail.

Gao Yang saw this with great clarity .

Albeit less impressionistic and insightful, Kemp's analysis is of broader scope and greater clarity than de Santillana's.

It will enable us to focus our activities and give us even greater clarity of purpose.

■ VERB

achieve

It is important therefore to try to achieve some clarity .

Lamps used during in-painting are as close to natural sunlight as possible to achieve color correctness and clarity .

He tried to achieve clarity on places and names.

remember

It was like the blackout, which Charles could suddenly remember with great clarity .

But now I remember with great clarity Emerson's words: Trust thyself every heart vibrates to that iron string.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

blinding realization/clarity/revelation etc

Because then it was that she knew, with blinding clarity, what had been there for some time now.

It had come to him as a blinding revelation when he was but a small child.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Compare the clarity of the pictures of these TVs.

The clarity of Irving's writing style makes his books a pleasure to read.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A City College education was a thing of breathtaking narrowness and perfect clarity .

Lieberman's experiment cited above suggests that acoustic clarity decreases with predictability from context.

On the whole, the show is appealing, stimulating and marked by an admirable clarity of presentation.

Perhaps even more destructively, the Philharmonic Hall acoustic does not make for the clarity of diction experienced in the average theatre.

The clarity of vision in those early years of women's liberation has gone.

The Birth Grandmother craved the clarity of blue.

The Godalming College entry was marked particularly high for clarity and student participation.

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