[f. prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being visible; visibility.
1581. W. Fulke, in Confer., II. (1584), I ij. There was a time when visiblenes was no note of the Church.
1605. A. Wotton, Answ. Pop. Articles, 14. We easily grant a perpetuall continuance of the church, though we denie a necessity of visiblenesse.
1620. T. Granger, Div. Logike, 66. Also visiblenesse, touchablenesse, which are inseparable.
1727. Bailey (vol. II.).
1842. Manning, Serm. (1848), I. xiv. 195. We have yet to regain the visibleness and consciousness of unity. Ibid., xxvi. 392. There is an inwardness and a retirement about it [i.e., the Church] even in its visibleness.
1890. Spectator, 11 Jan., 45/2. The owners feel … as if the visibleness of their wealth constituted a danger.
