OBVIOUSNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The property of being easy to see and understand

Synonyms:

noticeability; noticeableness; obviousness; patency

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("obviousness" is a kind of...):

conspicuousness (high visibility)

Attribute:

noticeable (capable or worthy of being noticed)

unnoticeable (not noticeable; not drawing attention)

obvious (easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind)

unobvious (not immediately apparent)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "obviousness"):

apparency; apparentness (the property of being apparent)

blatancy (the property of being both obvious and offensive)

predominance; predomination (the quality of being more noticeable than anything else)

Derivation:

obvious (easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind)