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n. - Chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence strong in hue; Interest and variety and intensity.

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  • The characters were delineated with exceptional vividness
  • Her presence and vividness is what raises a two or three star rating to a four star rating.
  • Likewise, the slapdash epistolary style of the MS., which had a certain vividness of its own.
  • His version was something of a pioneer effort, and if it sometimes lacked the dignity of the earlier translations it lacked nothing in vividness and colour.
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