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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ob·vi·ous a.
 1. Opposing; fronting. [Obs.]
 To the evil turn
 My obvious breast.   --Milton.
 2. Exposed; subject; open; liable. [Obs.] Obvious to dispute.”
 3. Easily discovered, seen, or understood; readily perceived by the eye or the intellect; plain; evident; apparent; as, an obvious meaning; an obvious remark.
 Apart and easy to be known they lie,
 Amidst the heap, and obvious to the eye.   --Pope.
 Syn: -- Plain; clear; evident. See Manifest.
 -- Ob*vi*ous*ly, adv. -- Ob*vi*ous-ness, n.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 obviousness
      n : the property of being easy to see and understand [syn: noticeability,
           noticeableness, patency]