brightness

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: brightness

1	n	the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light
2	n	the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white
3	n	intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: brightness

Types:: illuminance, illumination
the luminous flux incident on a unit area; incandescence
light from heat; glow, luminescence
light from nonthermal sources

Type of:: physical property
any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions

Types:: show 11 types...; hide 11 types...; blaze, brilliance, glare
a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted; dazzle
brightness enough to blind partially and temporarily; glisten, glister, glitter, scintillation, sparkle
the quality of shining with a bright reflected light; flash
a momentary brightness; glint
a spatially localized brightness; iridescence, opalescence
the visual property of something having a milky brightness and a play of colors from the surface; effulgence, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency, shine
the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light; brilliancy, luster, lustre, splendor, splendour
a quality that outshines the usual; gleam, gleaming, glow, lambency
an appearance of reflected light; luster, lustre, sheen, shininess
the visual property of something that shines with reflected light; burnish, gloss, glossiness, polish
the property of being smooth and shiny

Type of:: light, lightness
the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures

Type of:: intelligence
the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience

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