radiancy
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- noun
- /ˈreɪdiənsi/
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radiancia
- The artist captured the radiancy of the glowing lanterns in her stunning painting.
Examples
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The sun revealed its radiancy as it rose above the horizon, illuminating the entire valley.
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In one particularly painful entry, Carlyle describes reading and arranging her letters of 1857: "What a piercing radiancy of meaning to me in those dear records, hastily thrown off, full of misery, yet of bright eternal love..."
Academic text (2001) -
The diamond's radiancy dazzled everyone at the gala, reflecting light in every direction.
Synonyms
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A bright, smooth look on something that reflects light
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1.0
How much light something gives or how close it looks to white
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4.2
A bright glow in someone's face that shows health or happiness
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4.5
A very bright light that makes it hard to see
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7.3
How much light an object gives or reflects
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A very bright, shining light that fills a place
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4.3
A brightness in an image or scene that changes mood
A very bright, strong light that shines from something
A bright, strong light like the sun that shines out
How bright something is because it gives or reflects light
A soft, gentle light that seems to glow and move slightly
Antonyms
How Bright
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Radiancy comes from the Latin radiare 'to shine' and radius 'ray'. So, like the words radiant and radiate, radiancy is the quality of being bright and sending out light.