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; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things. The soul's . . . distinctness from the body. Cudworth.

ity or condition of being indistinct; want of definiteness; dimness; confusion; as, the indistinctness of a picture, or of comprehension; indistinctness of vision.

A dim, confused appearance; indistinctness of vision; as, to see things with a blur; it was all blur.

xaggerates the dimensions of houses and the breadth of roads and streams, for the sake of distinctness. Brande & C.

Free from ambiquity or indistinctness; lucid; perspicuous; plain; evident; manifest; indubitable. One truth is clear; whatever is, is right. Pop

The state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult.

To impress with great distinctness; to imprint; to imitate exactly.

To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly; as, the defining power of an optical instrument. Rings . . . very distinct and well defined. Sir I. Newton.

Distinctness or clearness, as of an image formed by an optical instrument; precision in detail.

The state of being discriminated; distinctness.

With distinctness; not confusedly; without the blending of one part or thing another; clearly; plainly; as, to see distinctly.

Distinctness. [R.]

Mode of utterance or pronunciation, especially as regards fullness and distinctness or articulation; as, to speak with a clear or impressive enunciation.

Lacking distinctness; hardly perceptible; striking the senses feebly; not bright, or loud, or sharp, or forcible; weak; as, a faint color, or sound.

Feebleness, as of color or light; lack of distinctness; as, faintness of description.

To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; -- said of the mind or of thought. Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space and distance falters. I. Taylor.

Not uttered with articulation or intelligible distinctness, as speech or words. Music which is inarticulate poesy. Dryden.

Freedom from confusion; distinctness. [Obs.] Bacon.

Indistinctness; want of development.

ve lenses with a considerable curvature corresponding to that of the eye, to increase the distinctness of objects viewed obliquely.