Meanings
- uncountableThe state or quality of being visible.
Not only are persons of a holy life made to shine with a more radiant brightness, but common Christians, of no note or visibleness, are changed to a saintly character.
1843, Henry Edward Manning, Thoughts for those that mourn2 more examples
The Biblical experience of God in both the Old and the New Testaments is characterized as a whole by the fact that the essentially "invisible" and "unapproachable" God enters the sphere of creaturely visibleness, not by means of intermediary beings, but in himself […]
2007, John Panteleimon Manoussakis, God After Metaphysics: A Theological Aesthetic, page 28One of Balázs's central ideas was the unmediated visibleness of the spiritual in the physical, and this was closely connected with the notion of a corresponding visual resensitizing of the individual through the filmic image, through which "we finally see things with our eyes, that would cause us to close our eyes if appearing in reality," as he wrote elsewhere.
2011, Jörg Schweinitz, Film and Stereotype: A Challenge for Cinema and Theory, page 143Synonyms: apparency, seeability, seeableness, visibility
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe state or quality of being visible.
More synonyms by meaning
nounquality or fact or degree of being visible; perceptible by the eye or obvious to the eye
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Finnish näkyvyys
- näkyvyysthe state or quality of being visible
German Sichtbarkeit
- Sichtbarkeitthe state or quality of being visible
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visibleness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/visibleness
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