as in clarity
clearness of expression
the lucidity of the recipe should ensure a minimum of confusion
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Recent Examples of lucidity
As Chandan drifts between lucidity and confusion, Shoaib tries to comfort him, but his condition deteriorates rapidly.
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Isadora Wandermurem, Time, 21 Nov. 2025
The 40 Water will deliver us to lucidity on Sunday night.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
In past decades, the Nobel Prize committee has tended to prefer lucidity and clarity, in poetry as well as prose, over experimentation.
—Walt Hunter, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
In sleep labs, researchers train dreamers to signal lucidity through deliberate eye movements, which can be time-stamped using electrooculography (EOG).
—Rachel Barr, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
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Isadora Wandermurem, Time, 21 Nov. 2025
The 40 Water will deliver us to lucidity on Sunday night.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
In past decades, the Nobel Prize committee has tended to prefer lucidity and clarity, in poetry as well as prose, over experimentation.
—Walt Hunter, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
In sleep labs, researchers train dreamers to signal lucidity through deliberate eye movements, which can be time-stamped using electrooculography (EOG).
—Rachel Barr, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lucidity
Noun
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Dan Schnur, a political science professor at UC Berkeley and the University of Southern California, said that the debate provided some clarity on the race in terms of what direction each candidate would take the state.—
Grace Hase,
Mercury News,
23 Apr. 2026
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Taken together, investigators suggest the crash was not caused by a single error, but by a breakdown across multiple safeguards — including human decision-making, communication clarity and technological support systems.—
Greg Wehner,
FOXNews.com,
23 Apr. 2026
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This was the most straightforward, efficient episode of the season, pleasurable in its simplicity, with only one gimmick (the to-go orders) that barely made a difference to the episode’s outcome.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2026
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That simplicity is an advantage that baseball has over hockey, where everything moves so much faster and the plays don’t happen in discrete chunks.—
Sean McIndoe,
New York Times,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Lucidity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lucidity. Accessed 30 Apr. 2026.
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