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the quality of being transparent or allowing light to pass through
The writer imagined consciousness reduced to a state of pure diaphaneity.
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From Latin diaphaneitas, based on Medieval Latin diaphanus ("transparent"), from Ancient Greek diaphanes ("showing through"), from dia- ("through") + phainein ("to show").