vividness

English

Etymology

From vivid +‎ -ness.

Noun

vividness (usually uncountable, plural vividnesses)

1. The quality or state of being vivid.
   • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 118:

     I felt light-headed; grotesque hallucinations materialised before me with startling vividness.

   • 1958 February, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 89:

     As the rest of the film was made on location in the railway yards of Havre and not in a studio, and was given a sound-track of penetrating vividness, this whole production gives the closest possible ring of truth of any film about railways.

Synonyms

• vividity (rare), color

Translations

state of being vivid

Czech: živost f, barvitost f Hungarian: élénkség (hu) Japanese: 鮮やかさ (ja) (azayakasa) Macedonian: ја́сност f (jásnost), жи́вост f (žívost) Polish: plastyka (pl) f Portuguese: vividez (pt) f Spanish: nitidez (es) f

Further reading

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “vividness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.