lucidity
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Definition of lucidity
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Synonyms & Antonyms for lucidity
Synonyms
clarity, explicitness, lucidness, perspicuity, perspicuousness, simplicity
Antonyms
obscureness, obscurity, unclarity
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As the end approached, Cockrell had moments of lucidity. — Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje, ExpressNews.com, "Friends rushed to create SMU endowment while Lila Cockrell was still alive," 30 Aug. 2019 Only in the concluding fugue did the piece lose some of its lucidity. — Rick Schultz, Los Angeles Times, "Review: Cancer be damned. Hollywood Bowl fave Bramwell Tovey reclaims the stage," 14 Aug. 2019 Caution should also be exercised with other supplements and herbs that claim to increase dream lucidity—they are not backed by scientific evidence and, as with all drugs, there is the risk of allergic reactions and side-effects. — Achilleas Pavlou, Quartz, "A lucid dream researcher’s tips for controlling your dreams," 29 June 2019 Warren has been the phenomenon of the election so far because of the scope of her expertise and the lucidity of her message of inequality and corruption. — Benjamin Wallace-wells, The New Yorker, "At the Democratic Debate, Elizabeth Warren’s Reformism Versus Trump’s Moral Crisis," 27 June 2019 No matter how thick the orchestration became, distinctions among instrumental sections and lucidity of voicing were unmistakably apparent. — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, "CSO at Ravinia review: Marin Alsop poetically launches Bernstein tribute," 13 July 2018 To achieve this kind of textural lucidity and dramatic sweep amid such heavily scored passagework — and in an outdoor environment, no less — rendered an already-powerful work that much more rhetorically effective. — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, "Grant Park Orchestra review: A fitting 80th birthday tribute to William Bolcom," 7 July 2018 The approach yields a kind of formal lucidity that is constant from his prickly early music through his more inviting recent works. — New York Times, "He Has Fans, Fame and an Acclaimed ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Opera. So Why Is Charles Wuorinen So Cranky?," 25 May 2018 Brinkley’s gifts shine brightest in such passages, when his characters tiptoe toward but never quite reach a lucidity about their own emotional conditions. — Brittany Allen, Longreads, "Masters of Contradiction," 24 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'lucidity.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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