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synonyms for obviousness

  • accuracy
  • brightness
  • certainty
  • directness
  • lucidity
  • precision
  • purity
  • simplicity
  • transparency
  • articulateness
  • comprehensibility
  • conspicuousness
  • definition
  • distinctness
  • evidence
  • exactitude
  • exactness
  • explicitness
  • intelligibility
  • legibility
  • limpidity
  • openness
  • palpability
  • penetrability
  • perceptibility
  • perspicuity
  • plainness
  • prominence
  • salience
  • tangibility
  • unambiguity
  • cognizability
  • decipherability
  • explicability
  • limpidness
  • manifestness
  • overtness
  • unmistakability

antonyms for obviousness

MOST RELEVANT
  • inaccuracy
  • unintelligibility
  • dirtiness
  • obscurity
          • complexity
          • complication
          • difficulty
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          How to use obviousness in a sentence

          It is to the wholesome obviousness of Dickens that we owe the atmosphere of good cheer that surrounds his characters.
          HUMANLY SPEAKINGSAMUEL MCCHORD CROTHERS
          Observation without imagination makes for obviousness; imagination without observation turns into nonsense.
          FIVE PLAYSEDWARD JOHN DUNSANY
          Those manufactured for the stage and the anecdote-books betray their artificial origin in their breadth and obviousness.
          THE BOOK-HUNTERJOHN HILL BURTON
          As a piece of thought, "A man's a man for a' that" unites the two defects of obviousness and inaccuracy.
          ADVENTURES IN CRITICISMSIR ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH
          Palpabil′ity, Pal′pableness, quality of being palpable: obviousness.
          CHAMBERS'S TWENTIETH CENTURY DICTIONARY (PART 3 OF 4: N-R)VARIOUS
          The obviousness of this, when he had ended his questioning and exhausted his resources, was a staggering thing.
          ROBINFRANCES HODGSON BURNETT
          He ought to experience their obviousness, their inconvenience, their distraction.
          A NEW ATMOSPHEREGAIL HAMILTON
          The only woman to three men, Elodie preened herself with amusing obviousness and set out to make herself agreeable.
          THE MOUNTEBANKWILLIAM J. LOCKE
          Certain elements of clumsiness, of obviousness, of evident blunder, actually require the chronological explanation.
          APPRECIATIONS AND CRITICISMS OF THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENSG. K. CHESTERTON
          Now, facts may be roughly classed, according to their obviousness and frequency of occurrence, into four groups.
          BYGONE BELIEFSH. STANLEY REDGROVE
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          OCTOBER 26, 1985
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