transparency

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transparency

/tɹænsˈpæɹənsi/ UK
/tɹænzˈpæɹənsi/ UK
/tɹænsˈpæɹənsi/ US
/tɹænz-/ US
/tɹænsˈpɛɹənsi/
/tɹænz-/

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Borrowed from Medieval Latin trānspārentia, equivalent to transparent + -cy.

noun transparencies

uncountable The quality of being transparent.
Similar: transparence, transparentness
uncountable Openness; accessibility to scrutiny. And it [bribery and fraud] didn't stop there. Both Sir Winston Churchill and later Labour leader Michael Foot were allegedly regular recipients of private cheques that would have seen them summarily sacked in this present age of transparency.
countable A transparent artwork, viewable by shining light through it. According to Bray (Life of Stothard, p. 50), the silversmiths Rundell and Bridge displayed a large transparency by Thomas Stothard, painted in thin oils on canvas and lit from behind, in front of their house on Ludgate Hill in honour of the King's Jubilee in 1810.
countable A translucent film-like material with an image imprinted on it, viewable by shining light through it. When Jessie Washburne-Harris worked as a sales associate at Gagosian New York in the late 1990s, she shared images of available artworks with her clients via colour transparencies, which were incredibly expensive to produce.
countable Something transparent. John Lehmann's narrator Jack Marlowe is such a transparency, and his fiction is totally formless.
countable, uncountable Sufficient accuracy to make the compressed result perceptually indistinguishable from the uncompressed input.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: transparentness, transparence, foil, transparently, transparent, lucidity, clarity, insight, open, visibility, opening, legibility, aperture, readability, public, access

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noun quality of being transparent; transparence

Español	transparencia
日本語	透明性 tōmeisei
中文	透明度 tòumíngdù, 透明性 tòumíngxìng
हिन्दी	पारदर्शिता pārdarśitā
Português	transparência
Français	transparence
Deutsch	Durchsichtigkeit, Transparenz
Italiano	trasparenza
Ελληνικά	διαφάνεια diafáneia
Română	transparență
Русский	прозра́чность prozráčnostʹ, транспаре́нтность transparéntnostʹ
العربية	شَفَّافِيَّة šaffāfiyya
עברית	שְׁקִיפוּת sh'kifút

noun transparent object

Español	transparencia
日本語	透明性 tōmeisei
Português	transparência, acetato
Français	transparence

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@misc{transparency_2026,
  title = {transparency},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/transparency},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}