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Từ điển LongMan Dictionary
clarity
clar‧i‧ty AC /ˈklærəti, ˈklærɪti/ noun [UNCOUNTABLE] [Word Family: noun: clarity, clearance, clearing, clarification, clearness; verb: clear, clarify; adverb: clear, clearly; adjective: clear ≠ unclear] [date : 1600-1700; Language : Latin; Origin : claritas, from clarus; ⇨ clear1] 1. the clarity of a piece of writing, law, argument etc is its quality of being expressed clearly ⇨ clear: ▪ Letters may be edited for length and clarity. ▪ a lack of clarity in the law on property rights
2. the ability to think, understand, or remember something clearly ⇨ clear: ▪ He had only visited the village once, but remembered it with surprising clarity. clarity of vision/purpose/thought etc ▪ Churchill’s clarity of vision impressed all who knew him.
3. the quality of being clear and easy to see or hear ⇨ clear: ▪ The picture was of such clarity that it could have been a photograph.
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ADJECTIVE absolute ▪ She knew now, consciously at last and with absolute clarity, why she had always reacted so intensely to Luke Scott. ▪ I knew with absolute clarity that this was not what I wanted. ▪ Together they must serve to make a consistent and powerful message that comes across with absolute clarity. great ▪ That inexcusable act probably speaks with greater clarity than anything I could say about his true character. ▪ Distant bodies like the Pleiades were recorded with great clarity. ▪ Like all her writings, Children's Minds combines great clarity and lucidity of expression with original and rigorous thought. ▪ It was hoped that further discussion in a reflective setting would add greater clarity to the issues. ▪ The Prime Minister My hon. Friend puts his point with great clarity and in some detail. ▪ Gao Yang saw this with great clarity. ▪ Albeit less impressionistic and insightful, Kemp's analysis is of broader scope and greater clarity than de Santillana's. ▪ It will enable us to focus our activities and give us even greater clarity of purpose. VERB achieve ▪ It is important therefore to try to achieve some clarity. ▪ Lamps used during in-painting are as close to natural sunlight as possible to achieve color correctness and clarity. ▪ He tried to achieve clarity on places and names. remember ▪ It was like the blackout, which Charles could suddenly remember with great clarity. ▪ But now I remember with great clarity Emerson's words: Trust thyself every heart vibrates to that iron string. PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES blinding realization/clarity/revelation etc ▪ Because then it was that she knew, with blinding clarity, what had been there for some time now. ▪ It had come to him as a blinding revelation when he was but a small child. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Compare the clarity of the pictures of these TVs. ▪ The clarity of Irving's writing style makes his books a pleasure to read. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A City College education was a thing of breathtaking narrowness and perfect clarity. ▪ Lieberman's experiment cited above suggests that acoustic clarity decreases with predictability from context. ▪ On the whole, the show is appealing, stimulating and marked by an admirable clarity of presentation. ▪ Perhaps even more destructively, the Philharmonic Hall acoustic does not make for the clarity of diction experienced in the average theatre. ▪ The clarity of vision in those early years of women's liberation has gone. ▪ The Birth Grandmother craved the clarity of blue. ▪ The Godalming College entry was marked particularly high for clarity and student participation.
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