Transpicuous vs Perspicuous - What's the difference?
transpicuous | perspicuous |
Easily construed or seen through.
Clearly expressed, easy to understand; lucid.
* 1776 , , Book I, Chapter 4,
(logic) Of a language or notation, such as that of formal propositional calculus: where the process of inference from premises to conclusion is explicitly laid out.
(rare) Transparent; translucent.
As adjectives the difference between transpicuous and perspicuous
is that transpicuous is easily construed or seen through while perspicuous is clearly expressed, easy to understand; lucid.transpicuous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "The Sobieski Stuarts were amiable, scholarly men who won converts by their transpicuous innocence." - Hugh Trevor Roper, in "The Invention of Tradition"
perspicuous
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Adjective
(en adjective)- I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious in order to be sure that I am perspicuous;