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

These poems are made with some of the simplicity and directness of a song.

— Colm Tóibín, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026
In their directness and simplicity, Laffont’s photos evoke the style-forward photographs that Malick Sidibé was taking in Mali at that same time.

— Lucy Sante, Vanity Fair, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of directness

Noun

Barcola should bring more spark and incisiveness to Liverpool’s attack, but some of last season’s shortcomings, notably on the right-hand side of the team and in midfield, haven’t been addressed.

— Oliver Kay, New York Times, 4 Sep. 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

Their impressiveness came from their straightforwardness, their precision and generosity of flavor, without needless curlicues or misguided deconstruction.

— Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026
What is genuinely remarkable, though, is that this meteoric machine drives with the straightforwardness of a Toyota Camry.

— Sean Evans, Robb Report, 26 Sep. 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

Russia has been pursuing the same goals with a similar fervor.

— Seva Gunitsky, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2026
The star has dedicated himself with the fervor of a holy crusader to the notion that, to quote his ex-wife, we are not just entertained but reborn when the lights go down and our collective dreams show up onscreen.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of fervor

Noun

Summer-like warmth begins Wednesday in Baltimore metro Summer-like temperatures will begin just as September comes to an end on Wednesday.

— Steven Sosna, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026
And fragrances follow suit with headier, richer notes that envelope you in the same cozy warmth.

— Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 28 Sep. 2026

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