Obviousnesses

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The state or quality of being easily perceived or understood
2. The condition of being clear, apparent, or self-evident in nature or presentation
3. An attribute denoting that something is unmistakably evident and lacking in ambiguity or uncertainty

Etymology: Obviousnesses is simply the plural of "obviousness," which is a noun formed by adding the suffix "-ness" to the adjective "obvious." The adjective "obvious" comes from Latin "obvius," meaning "in the way" or "meeting one on the road," built from "ob-" ("in the way of") and "via" ("road"). So the original sense was something literally standing in your path, and only later did it come to mean something plain enough to be noticed without effort. The suffix "-ness" traces back to Old English "-nes," a common way of turning adjectives into nouns of quality. Its ancestry runs back to Proto-Germanic and further still, but in English it has long been the everyday tool for expressing "the state of being" something, as in "kindness" or "darkness." Because "obviousness" is a noun for an abstract quality, it is normally uncountable. The plural "obviousnesses" is rare and appears when writers want to refer to several distinct instances or kinds of that quality.

Synonyms: clearness, evidences, manifestness, plainness, apparency

Antonyms: obscureness, ambiguity, unclearness, vagueness, uncertainty