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obviousness


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Obvious  \Ob"vi*ous\,  a.  [L.  obvius;  ob  (see  {Ob-})  +  via  way 
  See  {Voyage}.] 
  1.  Opposing;  fronting.  [Obs.] 
 
  To  the  evil  turn  My  obvious  breast.  --Milton. 
 
  2.  Exposed;  subject;  open  liable.  [Obs.]  ``Obvious  to 
  dispute.''  --Milton. 
 
  3.  Easily  discovered,  seen,  or  understood;  readily  perceived 
  by  the  eye  or  the  intellect;  plain;  evident;  apparent;  as 
  an  obvious  meaning;  an  obvious  remark. 
 
  Apart  and  easy  to  be  known  they  lie,  Amidst  the 
  heap,  and  obvious  to  the  eye.  --Pope. 
 
  Syn:  Plain;  clear;  evident.  See  {Manifest}.  -- 
  {Ob"vi*ous*ly},  adv  --  {Ob"vi*ous-ness},  n. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  obviousness 
  n  :  the  property  of  being  easy  to  see  and  understand  [syn:  {noticeability}, 
  {noticeableness}] 




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