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[ noun ] distinctness that makes perception easy

Synonyms

discernability

Used in print

(Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)

Only when the collage had been exhaustively translated into oil , and transformed by this translation , did Cubism become an affair of positive color and flat , interlocking silhouettes whose legibility and placement created allusions to , if_not the illusion of , unmistakable three-dimensional identities .

Related terms

distinctness

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[ noun ] writing (print or handwriting) that can be easily read

Synonyms

readability

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