clarity

Other forms of clarity

plural

clarities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about clarity

What does clarity mean?

clarity means "free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in clarity?

clarity has 3 syllables: clar-i-ty. The stress falls on "clar". In IPA it is /ˈklɛɹəti/.

What is another word for clarity?

Close synonyms include lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity, clearness, limpidity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of clarity?

The recorded antonyms are obscurity, opacity.

Is clarity a common word?

clarity is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.