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lucidity

noun

The quality of being clear and easily understood.

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The diagram added lucidity to a difficult argument.
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A student association asked Leila to rewrite its guide to reserving rehearsal rooms. Her articulation of the process improved when she explained who should send each request and when a reply would arrive. The editor praised the perspicuity of the revised wording and the lucidity of its worked example, using two overlapping terms for clarity and ease of understanding.
From Making the Guide Understandable.

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The lucid family

lucidity is grouped under lucid in the main dictionaries. This form keeps its meaning and previous study record.

lucidadjective

Clearly expressed and readily understood.

A lucid account made the complicated history accessible.
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The result remained lucid because each paragraph had a distinct job: introduce the question, describe the map, or explain a constraint.
From Say It Clearly, Then Stop.
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