What's the difference between clarity and lucidity?

Clarity


Definition:

  • (n.) Clearness; brightness; splendor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Furthermore, the backing away from any specific yield targets is exactly the lack of clarity that the FX market will not like."
  • (2) Correction of structure mottle helps enhance the image clarity.
  • (3) The modified CIRS was operationalized with a manual of guidelines geared toward the geriatric patient and for clarity was designated the CIRS(G).
  • (4) O'Donnell said he had decided to publish his guidance now to ensure there was clarity before the election.
  • (5) Already much work has been done to re-establish enduring components for Labour's electoral success: clarity of strategy, effective rebuttal, and superior field organisation with our network of community organisers.
  • (6) This technique results in a marked improvement in corneal clarity and visualization of anterior chamber structures.
  • (7) Businesses need a framework – clarity and stability.
  • (8) Everything that was, is more: brutality, injustice, poverty, anger; but also clarity, knowledge, understanding and, possibly, determination.
  • (9) Analysis of the clinical performance of the media indicated that in 82% of the traces water was equal to or better than gel in clarity, and in 90% of traces water was equal to or better than gel in suitability for diagnosis.
  • (10) There is less clarity on the effects of stress on survival rates of cancer patients.
  • (11) The orbital contents are also displayed with clarity equivalent to that obtained in man.
  • (12) To lend clarity to this discrepancy, we collected 40 serum samples before and after blood transfusion therapy of first-time cadaveric renal allograft recipients and evaluated each for T cell and B cell cytotoxic antibodies using an Amos modified complement-dependent microlymphocytotoxicity assay.
  • (13) Governor Mark Carney and his colleagues on the monetary policy committee had already faced criticism after sidelining a "forward guidance" policy – designed to bring clarity over the path of interest rates – just six months after its introduction.
  • (14) The data demonstrate with clarity that neurons containing both the mRNA for OX and the peptide CRF are present in subpopulations of magnocellular and parvocellular neurons of the PVN.
  • (15) We call for a more structured policy for tall buildings, with transparency for the public and clarity for developers.
  • (16) The reliability of magnitude-estimation scaling as a measure of overall clarity of speech was investigated.
  • (17) When he speaks he does so with clarity and conviction, a quiet authority, and with rare understanding and analysis.
  • (18) This now requires clarity about standards and expectations, that these are monitored and where necessary practice is challenged, and that there is a substantial programme in place to audit and report on practice, and training and briefings to skill up workers to practise well.
  • (19) The purpose of this Perspective is to provide some clarity to this rapidly evolving area of selective phosphodiesterase inhibitors.
  • (20) These findings demonstrate that differentiating children by sibling network type does offer some clarity to our understanding of the complex association between gender and patterns of parent-care.

Lucidity


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being lucid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After sulfentanil analgesia the patients were more rapidly awake and lucid, than after fentanyl-analgesia.
  • (2) Further reductions in psychotropic medications and the addition of the anticonvulsant medication resulted in continued rapid deceleration of rate of occurrence of maladaptive behaviours with a concomitant increase in lucid statements and independent functioning.
  • (3) The woman snaps out of bed and opens her eyes, absurdly conscious and alive, wonderfully lucid.
  • (4) The mortality related to deficits following a lucid interval was 44 per cent, whereas the mortality of immediate deficit was 13 per cent.
  • (5) (3) Some patients go into delirium after being lucid for as long as a week and have hallucinations, illusions, and motor excitation for a few days-or over several weeks.
  • (6) In contrast, the mechanism of injury, the verbal Glasgow Coma Scale score during the lucid interval, and the length of time until deterioration or until operative intervention did not influence the final result.
  • (7) While still a close run thing, the statistics now appear to favour the back foot.” His non-cricket explanation did little to increase the speech’s lucidity average.
  • (8) After 45 minutes, Ethiopia's troubles had slipped away and a sense of wellbeing, alertness, euphoria and lucidity took over.
  • (9) He gave a lucid and thoroughly depressing talk on "China's Role in the Global Climate Game," describing a number of unpleasant options China, the United States, and the rest of the world will have to face in dealing with climate changes already underway.
  • (10) A questionnaire was developed to assess adult recall for a range of transpersonal experiences throughout childhood and adolescence (mystical experience, out-of-body experience, lucid dreams, archetypal dreams, ESP), as well as nightmares and night terrors as indicators of more conflicted, negative states.
  • (11) In the technically complex world of F1 his triumph can be explained in the most lucid of terms: he was faster than his most serious rival, his Mercedes team-mate, Nico Rosberg.
  • (12) The patient emerged from anesthesia comfortable and lucid and experienced no perioperative anesthetic complications.
  • (13) The majority of particles visualized by immune electron microscopy had electrondense appearance, while electron-lucid particles were only occasionally encountered.
  • (14) A single subject, a proficient lucid dreamer experienced with signaling the onset of lucidity (reflective consciousness of dreaming) by means of voluntary eye movements, spent 4 nonconsecutive nights in the sleep laboratory.
  • (15) The study of a series of brains from patients who had a severe head injury and died within 72 h without a lucid interval showed that there was a step-wise progression in the development of retraction balls.
  • (16) When I went up to the spot I was pretty lucid, as much as one can be in that kind of situation.
  • (17) Ed Miliband's greatest strength – more than either his undoubted intellect or obvious lucidity – is the courage of his conviction.
  • (18) The detection of skull fracture or of a lucid interval was not prognostically useful.
  • (19) The patient's age, the course of consciousness before operation (whether there was a lucid interval), and the clot location did not correlate with the final outcome.
  • (20) Nurses interact significantly less with confused than lucid patients.