Definition for PER-SPI-CU'I-TY

PER-SPI-CU'I-TY, n. [Fr. perspicuité; L. perspicuitas, from perspicio.]

  1. Transparency; clearness; that quality of a substance which renders objects visible through it. [Little used.] – Brown.
  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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