What's the difference between perspicuity and perspicuous?

Perspicuity


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being transparent or translucent.
  • (n.) The quality of being perspicuous to the understanding; clearness of expression or thought.
  • (n.) Sagacity; perspicacity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This perspicuous and flexible apparatus is designed for induction as well as maintenance of anaesthesia with or without artificial ventilation.
  • (2) For reasons of perspicuity the items used in the various techniques were grouped in 10 different sections.
  • (3) This vivid model has the advantages of simplicity, perspicuity, and availability at any time, although two persons are necessary.
  • (4) To make the discussion perspicuous it is helpful to assume that the time evolution of the chemical system proceeds by a univariate, bistable one-step process of birth-and-death type.

Perspicuous


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being through; transparent; translucent; not opaque.
  • (a.) Clear to the understanding; capable of being clearly understood; clear in thought or in expression; not obscure or ambiguous; as, a perspicuous writer; perspicuous statements.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This perspicuous and flexible apparatus is designed for induction as well as maintenance of anaesthesia with or without artificial ventilation.
  • (2) For reasons of perspicuity the items used in the various techniques were grouped in 10 different sections.
  • (3) This vivid model has the advantages of simplicity, perspicuity, and availability at any time, although two persons are necessary.
  • (4) To make the discussion perspicuous it is helpful to assume that the time evolution of the chemical system proceeds by a univariate, bistable one-step process of birth-and-death type.