vividness

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Latin vīviduslbor. English vivid Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English vividness From vivid + -ness.

1. The quality or state of being vivid.

   “I felt light-headed; grotesque hallucinations materialised before me with startling vividness.”

   “As the rest of the film was made on location in the railway yards of Havre and not in a studio, and was given a sound-track of penetrating vividness, this whole production gives the closest possible ring of truth of any film about railways.”