obviousness
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Definition
Noun: - The quality or state of being easily perceived or understood; lack of subtlety or obscurity. It refers to the property of something being clear, apparent, and requiring little effort to see or grasp.
Usage and Examples
- General Use: Describes the clear, unmistakable nature of a fact, feeling, or situation.
- The obviousness of his lie made everyone uncomfortable.
- She was frustrated by the obviousness of the solution she had missed.
- In Argument or Explanation: Highlights that something is so clear it hardly needs stating.
- The report's conclusion was stated with such obviousness that no further debate was needed.
Advanced Usage
- "Stating the obvious": A common phrase used to criticize someone for saying something that is already clearly known or understood.
- By pointing out it was raining, he was merely stating the obvious.
- Conceptual Use: In philosophy or logic, it can relate to self-evident truths or axioms.
- The argument relied on the obviousness of its first premise.
Variants and Related Words
- Obvious (adjective): Easily seen or understood; clear.
- The error was obvious to everyone in the room.
- Obviously (adverb): In a way that is easily perceived or understood; clearly.
- He was obviously very pleased with the result.
Synonyms
- Clarity: The quality of being clear and easy to understand.
- Apparentness: The state of being clearly visible or understood.
- Patentness: The quality of being obvious or plain to see (more formal).
- Blatancy: The quality of being completely obvious, often in a shocking or offensive way.
Antonyms
- Obscurity: The state of being unknown, inconspicuous, or difficult to understand.
- Subtlety: The quality of being so delicate or precise as to be difficult to analyze or describe.
- Ambiguity: The quality of being open to more than one interpretation.
Related Phrases and Idioms
- Painfully obvious: Used to emphasize that something is extremely and undeniably clear, often to the point of being frustrating or embarrassing.
- His lack of preparation was painfully obvious during the presentation.
- Hide in plain sight: An idiom for something that remains unnoticed despite its obviousness.
- The clue was hiding in plain sight; its obviousness was what made it so clever.
Noun
- the property of being easy to see and understand