Usage examples (32)

• Like a man who is drowning, and close to death, he saw with surprising distinctness a kaleidoscopic view of his past life.
• One, namely the distinctness of specific forms, and their not being blended together by innumerable transitional links, is a very obvious difficulty.
• Her very words had a sort of distinctness which is sometimes produced by sharp, bodily pain.
• They were outlined with that sharp, black distinctness which is seen when at night a fireman runs along the outer walls of a burning building.