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lucency
[ loo-suhn-see ]
noun
- the quality or degree of clarity or translucence:
Suspended solids are an essential variable in assessing the lucency of the water, a key issue in the development of submerged vegetation.
- a clear or translucent area:
The chest x-ray showed a large lucency on the left hemithorax and a collapsed left lung.
- Literary. a resplendent quality; radiance or brilliance:
I felt a gradation move through what I beheld, like the sweep of lucency across a vast sheet of glazed light.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of lucency1
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Example Sentences
High manners traceable in him; but nothing of the noble loyalty, natural politeness and pious lucency of Suhm.
From Project Gutenberg
Of course you 're breathing the fog of London while I am bathed in warmest lucency.
From Project Gutenberg
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