Meanings
plural vividnesses
- 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 1181 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 & antonyms
More synonyms by meaning
nounchromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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
Cite this entry
vividness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vividness
“vividness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vividness. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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