All 6 Uses

clarity
in
The Waves, by Virginia Woolf
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Now that we look at the tree together, it has a combined look, each branch distinct, and I will tell you what I feel, under the compulsion of your clarity.†
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But the splendid clarity of your intelligence, and the remorseless honesty of your intellect (these Latin words I owe you; these qualities of yours make me shift a little uneasily and see the faded patches, the thin strands in my own equipment) bring you to a halt.†
I see everything—except one thing—with complete clarity.†
The windows showed erratically spots of burning fire, the elbow of one branch, and then some tranquil space of pure clarity.†
For the space of the prospect and its clarity seemed to offer no impediment whatsoever, but to allow our lives to spread out and out beyond all bristling of roofs and chimneys to the flawless verge.†
I observed with disillusioned clarity the despicable nonentity of the street; its porches; its window curtains; the drab clothes, the cupidity and complacency of shopping women; and old men taking the air in comforters; the caution of people crossing; the universal determination to go on living, when really, fools and gulls that you are, I said, any slate may fly from a roof, any car may swerve, for there is neither rhyme nor reason when a drunk man staggers about with a club in his hand—that is all.†

Definitions:

(1) (clarity)
seen, expressed, or understood clearly; or a degree of transparency such as the quality of clear water
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)