[f. LUCID + -NESS.] Lucidity.
1648. W. Mountague, Devout Ess., I. xxi. § 1. 385. The smoothness and lucidness of Glass.
1680. Boyle, Aerial Noctiluca, 38. The Constant Noctiluca … in which the lucidness was constant, though the Vial that contain’d it, was kept stopt.
1694. [see LUCIFEROUS 1].
1727. Bailey, vol. II., Lucidness, brightness.
1800. Hulme, in Phil. Trans., XC. 172. The fluid acquired a great degree of lucidness.
1836. Jas. Grant, Random Recoll. Ho. Lords, ix. 189. The lucidness of his arrangement, the appropriateness of his arguments, and the transparency of his style.
