In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
CLEARNESS
clearness, clarity, uncloudedness
(noun) the quality of clear water; “when she awoke the clarity was back in her eyes”
clarity, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity, clearness, limpidity
(noun) free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
clearness (usually uncountable, plural clearnesses)
(obsolete) Brightness, brilliancy. [14th-17thc.]
Mental or sensory distinctness; clarity of understanding, perception etc. [from 16thc.]
The state of being free from obscurities or opacity; distinctness of light, colour etc. [from 17thc.]
The state of being free from obstruction or interference. [from 17thc.]
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Source: Wiktionary
Clear"ness, n.
Definition: The quality or state of being clear.
Syn.
– Clearness, Perspicuity. Clearness has reference to our ideas, and springs from a distinct conception of the subject under consideration. Perspicuity has reference to the mode of expressing our ideas and belongs essentially to style. Hence we speak of a writer as having clear ideas, a clear arrangement, and perspicuous phraseology. We do at times speak of a person's having great clearness of style; but in such cases we are usually thinking of the clearness of his ideas as manifested in language. "Whenever men think clearly, and are thoroughly interested, they express themselves with perspicuity and force." Robertson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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