Other forms: transparencies
Transparency is doing things openly so that anyone may check. Financial transparency, call for transparency, a lack of transparency.
It is a demand about process rather than a promise of good behaviour — an organisation can be entirely transparent about doing something indefensible. It also means the physical quality of letting light through, and a sheet for an overhead projector. Note transparent beneath it.
1nountransparencyOpenness that allows others to check.
“Voters are demanding more transparency about how the government spends their money.”
2nounqualityThe quality of letting light through.
“The transparency of the water was so great that we could see fish swimming far below.”
transparency is an openness.
Medieval Latin transparentia comes from trans, through, plus parere, to appear.
Medieval Latin
trānspārentia
English, today
transparency
Medieval Latin trānspārentia, equivalent to transparent + -cy.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA