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.

Synonyms

• vividity (rare)

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

• “vividness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.