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Visible vs Perspicuous - What's the difference?

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Visible is a related term of perspicuous.


As adjectives the difference between visible and perspicuous

is that visible is able to be seen while perspicuous is clearly expressed, easy to understand; lucid.

visible

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Able to be seen.
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    Synonyms

    * apparent

    Antonyms

    * invisible * hidden

    perspicuous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Clearly expressed, easy to understand; lucid.
  • * 1776 , , Book I, Chapter 4,
  • I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious in order to be sure that I am perspicuous;
  • (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.
  • Antonyms

    * imperspicuous

    Derived terms

    * perspicuously * perspicuousness

    References

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