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How to use clearness in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Clearness means brightness, brilliancy. Example: “The clearness of the water meant I could still see the key lying on the river-bed.”

Examples of clearness by meaning

nounMental or sensory distinctness; clarity of understanding, perception etc.

  • The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness.1966 September 6, “The Lowest Depths”, in Time

nounThe state of being free from obscurities or opacity; distinctness of light, colour etc.

  • The clearness of the water meant I could still see the key lying on the river-bed.

nounThe state of being free from obstruction or interference.

  • The clearness of the path made for an easy hike.

More sentences with clearness

  • Clearness is, however, the first essential and must not be sacrificed.1913, Carl Henry Grabo, The Art of the Short Story, C. Scribner's Sons, pages 230-231. From the entry overcompression
  • He has kept a journal in which he sets forth his disease with the utmost clearness.1903, Guy de Maupassant, translated by M. Walter Dunne, A Tress of Hair. From the entry necrophile
  • The earliest form of Budhist music was fanbei; fan being the music of Mahabrahma and bei being clearness and purity.2004, Chi-Ying Fu, Zhiying Fu, Handing Down the Light: The Biography of Venerable Master Hsing Yun, Buddha's Light Publishing, page 65. From the entry fanbei
  • This latent syllabism, which underlies the alphabetism of the hieroglyphic writing, indicates with sufficient clearness the origin of the Egyptian alphabet.1995, Isaac Taylor, The Alphabet: An Account of the Origin and Development of Letters. From the entry syllabism
  • Clearness, intelligibleness, exactitude were insisted upon.1913, Charles Wharton Stork, The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,. From the entry intelligibleness
  • To measure one’s own activity, to make it conform to these standards of clearness, brevity and truth, is practically a very difficult matter.1912, A. Everett George, The Montessori Method, Frederick A. Stokes Co., translation of original by Maria Montessori, page 110. From the entry measure
  • Under conditions favourable for confusion, it was difficult for the observer to perceive with any clearness the 'vehicle of movement'; all he could see was 'movingness' without any object moving.2013, M. D. Vernon, Visual Perception, page 162. From the entry movingness

Meaning of clearness

  1. noun Brightness, brilliancy.
  2. noun Mental or sensory distinctness; clarity of understanding, perception etc.
  3. noun The state of being free from obscurities or opacity; distinctness of light, colour etc.

Full definition of clearness

Questions about clearness in a sentence

How do you use clearness in a sentence?
Clearness is used as a noun. For example: “The clearness of the water meant I could still see the key lying on the river-bed.”
What is a short sentence with clearness?
“Clearness, intelligibleness, exactitude were insisted upon.”
What does clearness mean?
Clearness means brightness, brilliancy.

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