pellucidity

See-through quality entirely

Pellucidity is the quality of being perfectly clear and transparent, whether literally or figuratively.

Water has pellucidity when you can see straight through to the bottom.

Prose has pellucidity when the meaning comes through without obstruction: The pellucidity of her argument left no room for confusion.

The word is formal and literary.

clarity

perspicuity

Plainness of expression

intelligibility · comprehensibility · coherence · cogency · precision · explicitness · articulateness · straightforwardness · plainness · simplicity

translucence

limpidity

Transparent, unclouded quality

diaphanous · crystalline · glassiness · see-through · sheerness · vitreous · translucency · clearness · waterlike · glacial

purity

limpidness

Transparent, unclouded quality

unblemished · crystalline · untainted · spotlessness · clearness · refinement · innocence · wholesomeness · genuineness · sincerity

insight

discernment

Keen perception and judgment

understanding · comprehension · penetration · keenness · astuteness · perceptiveness · shrewdness · acumen · sagacity · clear-sightedness

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Opposites
visual/physical transparency

pellucidityopacity

Impermeability to light

opaqueness · murkiness · cloudiness · turbidity · haziness

intellectual/expressive clarity

pellucidityobscurity

State of being unknown

obscureness · ambiguity · unclearness · opacity · unintelligibility

Family

lucid, illuminate, translucent, elucidate, lucidity, pellucid, lucent, lucidness, lucifer

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