VIVIDNESS Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

vividness

noun

as in clearness

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Recent Examples of vividness 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 Whatever transformation occurs reflects the brute metamorphosis of character into symbol, not the fullness of realism or the vividness of fiction. — Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 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

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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

In a recent interview, Fraction made the case with the directness of someone who has seen the same patterns repeat across hundreds of teams.

— Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
In a tournament defined by vertical runs, through balls and dinks, Olise has been France’s main conductor, synthesising their high-pressing intensity and directness with creative rhythm.

— Sukhman Singh, New York Times, 29 June 2026

Definition of directness

Noun

Howard Cosell would announce the news of Lennon’s death on Monday Night Football, a sound bite that Soderbergh, with his customary incisiveness and aversion to the maudlin, includes here.

— Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2026
No artist ever mocked the insanity of the Hollywood cartoon stystem with such devastating incisiveness, and yet loved its creative output so much.

— Glenn Garner, Deadline, 28 Mar. 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

Think under-stair dog dens, laundry-room cat cubbies tucked next to the dryer for warmth, and litter box enclosures hidden inside custom benches with ventilation fans that exhaust odor outside.

— Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 8 July 2026
The result of this modernization is quieter performance and greater speed accuracy, while sacrificing just a little of the elder deck’s warmth but absolutely none of its spirit.

— Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 8 July 2026

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