[f. LIMPID + -NESS.] The quality of being limpid; = LIMPIDITY.

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1664.  H. More, Synops. Proph., 248. The other consideration of rivers is their limpidness and irrigation.

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1758.  [R. Dossie], Elaboratory laid open, Introd. 75. Having that greater degree of lightness, volatility, and limpidness, which brings it to what is called the ethereal state.

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1870.  Lowell, Study Wind., 198. Nothing can be finer than the delicious limpidness of his phrase.

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1885.  G. Meredith, Diana of Crossways, II. i. 8. Lake waters under rock, unfathomable in limpidness.

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