[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality or state of being evident; clearness, obviousness, plainness.
1552. in Vicary’s Anat. (1888), App. xvi. 295. It behoueth first to vnderstande for the more evidentnesse of that that foloweth, that [etc.].
1587. Golding, De Mornay, viii. 114. What euidentnesse or certeyntie is there in the Greeke Histories.
1730–6. Bailey (folio), Evidentness, plainness to be seen, perceived or understood.
1869. Contemp. Rev., XII. 120. There is a want … of evidentness of meaning.
