different between categorical vs lucid

English

Pronunciation

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /?kæt??????k(?)l/

Adjective

categorical (comparative more categorical, superlative most categorical)

1. Absolute; having no exception.
   • 1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 74:

     Daytime interests are clearly not such far-reaching psychical sources of dreams as might have been expected from the categorical assertions that everyone continues to carry on his daily business in his dreams.

2. Of, pertaining to, or using a category or categories.

Synonyms

• (absolute; having no exception): absolute, categoric, unconditional

Antonyms

• (absolute; having no exception): exceptional, conditional, hypothetical, relative

Derived terms

• acategorical
• categorical imperative
• categoricalness

Related terms

• categoricity

Translations

Noun

categorical (plural categoricals)

1. (logic) A categorical proposition.

English

Etymology

Latin lucidus, from lux (“light”) + -idus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l(j)u?s?d/
• Rhymes: -u?s?d

Adjective

lucid (comparative lucider or more lucid, superlative lucidest or most lucid)

1. clear; easily understood
2. mentally rational; sane
3. bright, luminous, translucent or transparent

Synonyms

• (easily understood): clear, perspicuous, straightforward; See also Thesaurus:comprehensible
• (mentally rational): coherent, sane
• (bright): brilliant, light
• (luminous): glowing, radiant; See also Thesaurus:shining
• (transparent): clear, pellucid, see-through, transparent; See also Thesaurus:transparent or Thesaurus:translucent

Derived terms

• lucid dream
• lucidity (noun)
• lucidly (adverb)

Related terms

• elucidate

Translations

Noun

lucid (plural lucids)

1. A lucid dream.
   • 1986, Benjamin B. Wolman, Montague Ullman, Handbook of states of consciousness (page 163)

     The day before nightmare-initiated lucids, subjects reported more depressed feelings […]

Anagrams

• Ludic, dulic, ludic

Romanian

Etymology

From French lucide

Adjective

lucid m or n (feminine singular lucid?, masculine plural lucizi, feminine and neuter plural lucide)

1. lucid, clear-sighted

Declension

Related terms

• luciditate

Spanish

Verb

lucid

1. (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of lucir.