vividness

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noun

The quality or state of being vivid.

UncommonScrabble 16

Meanings

nounvividness (usually uncountable, plural vividnesses)

plural vividnesses

  1. uncountableusuallyThe quality or state of being vivid.

    I felt light-headed; grotesque hallucinations materialised before me with startling vividness.

    1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 118
    1 more example

    As the rest of the film was made on location in the railway yards of Havre and not in a studio, and was given a sound-track of penetrating vividness, this whole production gives the closest possible ring of truth of any film about railways.

    1958 February 28, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 89

    Synonyms: vividity, color

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe quality or state of being vivid.

More synonyms by meaning

nouninterest and variety and intensity

nounchromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue

Broader
color property

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Latinvīvidu
  2. Englishvivid
  3. Englishvividness

From vivid + -ness.

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Translations

Czech živost, barvitost
  • živoststate of being vivid
  • barvitoststate of being vivid
Hungarian élénkség
  • élénkségstate of being vivid
Japanese 鮮やかさ
  • 鮮やかさ (azayakasa)state of being vivid
Polish plastyka
  • plastykastate of being vivid
Portuguese vividez
  • vividezstate of being vivid
Spanish nitidez
  • nitidezstate of being vivid
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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “vividness,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vividness.

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