/perr'spi kyooh"i tee/ , n.
1. clearness or lucidity, as of a statement.
2. the quality of being perspicuous.
[ 1470-80; perspicuitas. See PERSPICUOUS, -ITY ]
Syn. 1. clarity, plainness, intelligibility. 2. transparency. 3. PERSPICUITY, PERSPICACITY are both derived from a Latin word meaning "to see through." PERSPICACITY refers to the power of seeing clearly, to clearness of insight or judgment: a person of acute perspicacity; the perspicacity of his judgment. PERSPICUITY refers to something that can be seen through, i.e., to lucidity, clearness of style or exposition, freedom from obscurity: the perspicuity of her argument.
Ant. 2. dimness, opacity.