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luminescent

[ loo-muh-nes-uhnt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

emitting light that is not caused by incandescence and that occurs at a temperature below that of incandescent bodies:
The luminescent watch hands glow 100 times brighter than those on standard watches, allowing wearers to read the time in complete darkness.
glowing or shining, or producing an impression of light; lustrous; radiant:
Her gloriously luminescent voice, described by the New York Times as "hauntingly clear," evokes other-worldly sounds wafting from a mountaintop convent.

First recorded in 1855–60; from Latin lūmin-, stem of lūmen “light” + -escent ( def )

Seen beside the two luminescent elegies, the rest of the essays in the collection appear in long shadows.

Richard C. Holbrooke was the most luminescent foreign-policy figure of my generation.

About his head there began to float a pale, luminescent sphere.

Many of them are luminescent, and omit steady or flashing lights of every tint all through the night.

There was a bank of cloud in that quarter, but the sky above it was a pale luminescent blue.

Rays were coming from the tube which had a luminescent effect upon the paper.

I pursued you over the luminescent astral sea where the glorious angels sail.

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