PERSPICU'ITY, noun [Latin perspicuitas, from perspicio.] 1. Transparency; clearness; that quality of a substance which renders objects visible through it. [Little used.] 2. Clearness to mental vision; easiness to be understood; freedom from obscurity or ambiguity; that quality of writing or language which readily presents to the mind of another the precise ideas of the author. perspicuity is the first excellence of writing or speaking.
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