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Noun

visibleness ‎(uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being visible.
   • 1843, Henry Edward Manning, Thoughts for those that mourn:

     Not only are persons of a holy life made to shine with a more radiant brightness, but common Christians, of no note or visibleness, are changed to a saintly character.

   • 2007, John Panteleimon Manoussakis, God After Metaphysics: A Theological Aesthetic, page 28:

     The Biblical experience of God in both the Old and the New Testaments is characterized as a whole by the fact that the essentially "invisible" and "unapproachable" God enters the sphere of creaturely visibleness, not by means of intermediary beings, but in himself […]

   • 2011, Jörg Schweinitz, Film and Stereotype: A Challenge for Cinema and Theory, page 143:

     One of Balázs's central ideas was the unmediated visibleness of the spiritual in the physical, and this was closely connected with the notion of a corresponding visual resensitizing of the individual through the filmic image, through which "we finally see things with our eyes, that would cause us to close our eyes if appearing in reality," as he wrote elsewhere.

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