VIVIDNESS Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

vividness

noun

as in clearness

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Recent Examples of vividness At certain moments, her life possesses the brilliant vividness of fiction or myth. — Ian Penman, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026 Scent can drop you into a moment from decades ago with a vividness no photograph can match. — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 16 June 2026 Whatever transformation occurs reflects the brute metamorphosis of character into symbol, not the fullness of realism or the vividness of fiction. — Literary Hub, 2 Apr. 2026 Yet the vividness of these rare deaths powerfully shapes how people perceive and respond to risk. — Alejandro Hortal-Sánchez, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2026 The social world seen through her lens—women riding bicycles, women playing tennis, women embracing one another—has an irresistible vividness. — Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2025 And a great director could achieve a kind of vividness that is not yet available. — William Earl, Variety, 14 Nov. 2025 Through the first-person narration of his protagonist, Nicholas, a teenager suddenly besieged by anxiety, Clune conveys with uncanny vividness what a panic attack feels like. — Scott Stossel, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2025

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Noun

Wine-Coca conduces to mental activity and clearness, prevents fatigue and exhaustion, brings cheerfulness and sweet refreshing sleep.

— AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 29 May 2026

Definition of clearness

Noun

Palace missed Sarr’s directness, with summer signing Dwight McNeil, Eddie Nketiah and Mateta not showing a full understanding.

— Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026
Marius, approaching 50, is a big doctor in this provincial city, not just a surgeon but the director of the hospital, and a man who prides himself on his directness and honesty.

— Jay Weissberg, Variety, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of directness

Noun

Tottenham lacked a winner’s edge in duels and fell well short in quality and incisiveness in possession.

— Elias Burke, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026
Sen’s choreography extends this ancient form, adding partnering and dynamic range; her dancers, all trained under her tutelage, move with extraordinary clarity and incisiveness.

— Shauna Lyon, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of incisiveness

Noun

But the Windows handheld software experience on the Claw is just awful compared to the straightforwardness of SteamOS on the Steam Deck.

— Jay Peters, The Verge, 23 June 2026
On Monday morning, Starmer, whose resignation has appeared inevitable for some time, delivered the news with his customary straightforwardness.

— Sam Knight, New Yorker, 22 June 2026

Definition of straightforwardness

Noun

The sheer fact of filming fills a frame, even one composed with quasi-documentary plainness, with a plethora of details of narrative, expressive, aesthetic, intellectual, and historical import.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 9 July 2026
To understand why men might have adopted a clothing system that prioritized plainness and conformity over color and change, this book investigates the gradual crystallization of this civic uniform of masculinity.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 June 2026

Definition of plainness

Noun

In one note, Miles can play absoluteness.

— Steve Baltin, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2026
The seeming absoluteness of scientific thinking may predispose many medical practitioners or public health workers to assume the populace trust them, that evidential claims naturally validate interventions — no further Q&A needed.

— Cory Anderson, STAT, 6 Mar. 2026

Definition of absoluteness

Noun

His predictions mostly involved preaching to the AI evangelist choir, and his fervor for the tech evidently led him to throw caution to the winds of Wall Street.

— Frank Landymore, Futurism, 27 Aug. 2026
The love goes both ways; Fanning credits the fervor of the Hunger Games fanbase with helping her land the role of Effie Trinket.

— Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of fervor

Noun

Watching a haunting play out in the moment around a thousand strangers gives the thing an odd and interesting warmth.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2026
Lulu & Georgia's velvet is particularly cozy, and the texture adds warmth without asking anything else of the room.

— Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 26 Aug. 2026

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