lüˈsidəd.ē, -ətē, -i noun
( -es )
Etymology: Late Latin luciditat-, luciditas brightness, Latin lucidus + -itat-, -itas -ity
1. : the quality or state of being lucid especially in thought or style
combined idealistic turbulence with lucidity of expression — Maurice Edelman
clearness in the narrow sense — the thin ~ of what passes at times for scientific statement — C.E.Montague
2. : the presumed state of being able to perceive the truth directly and instantaneously : clairvoyance
just before one dies there comes a strange lucidity — Robert Graves
when the spirit is drawn to lucidity by the immediacy of death — Graham Greene