limpidness

See-through water quality

Limpidness is the quality of being clear and transparent.

The word applies to liquids, air, or light: the limpidness of the mountain stream.

It extends to prose or expression that is lucid and easily understood: the limpidness of her writing style.

A somewhat literary term, more common in its adjective form limpid.

clarity

lucid

Mentally sharp and comprehensible

clear · translucent · see-through · unclouded · crystalline · glassy · vitreous · hyaline · diaphanous · clearness

serenity

calm

Free from agitation

still · peaceful · undisturbed · unruffled · glassy · mirror-like · quiet · gentle · smooth · restful

expression

lucid

Mentally sharp and comprehensible

comprehensible · perspicuous · understandable · precise · unambiguous · explicit · clear-cut · plain · straightforward · simple

purity

pure

Unmixed, without impurities

unadulterated · uncontaminated · spotless · immaculate · clean · unpolluted · wholesome · untainted · fresh · virginal

Opposites
optical clarity

limpidnessopacity

Impermeability to light

opaqueness · turbidity · murkiness · cloudiness · haziness

conceptual/stylistic clarity

limpidnessobscurity

State of being unknown

opacity · murkiness · opaqueness · confusion · unintelligibility

Family

limpid, limpidity, limpidly

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