clarity

/ˈklɛrədi/

/ˈklɛrɪti/

Other forms: clarities

Clarity means clearness. Clean water running down a mountain has clarity. So does a lovely singing voice: it's clear and pure.

If you bring clarity to a situation, you help people see what really happened by clearing up misunderstandings or giving explanations. Sometimes people talk about having moments of clarity when suddenly everything about a particular situation or even about life itself comes into focus. People also talk about good writing having clarity when it is precise, clean, and easy to understand.

Definitions of clarity

1. noun

   the quality of being coherent and easily understood
   synonyms: clearness, limpidity, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity

   antonyms:

   obscurity

   the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand

   types:

   monosemy

   having a single meaning (absence of ambiguity) usually of individual words or phrases

   focus

   maximum clarity or distinctness of an idea

   clearcutness, preciseness

   clarity as a consequence of precision

   perspicuity, perspicuousness, plainness

   clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous

   unambiguity, unequivocalness

   clarity achieved by the avoidance of ambiguity

   explicitness

   clarity as a consequence of being explicit

   type of:

   comprehensibility, understandability

   the quality of comprehensible language or thought
2. noun

   the quality of being transparent or clear
   “when she awoke the clarity was back in her eyes”

   synonyms: clearness, uncloudedness

   antonyms:

   opacity

   the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light

   types:

   transparence, transparency, transparentness

   the quality of being clear and transparent

   semitransparency, translucence, translucency

   the quality of allowing light to pass diffusely

   visibility

   capability of providing a clear unobstructed view

   distinctness, sharpness

   the quality of being sharp and clear

   limpidity, pellucidity, pellucidness

   passing light without diffusion or distortion

   definition

   clarity of outline

   discernability, legibility

   distinctness that makes perception easy

   focus

   maximum clarity or distinctness of an image rendered by an optical system

   type of:

   quality

   an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone