radiance
Other forms: radiances
Radiance is a type of glowing: either from a light source like the sun or a healthy, beaming person.
The sun radiates lights, and bright objects that give off light rays have a quality called radiance. The sun's radiance can be felt the strongest in the afternoon. We use lights for their radiance: they brighten rooms and streets. Also, if someone is happy and healthy, we can talk about their radiance. A sign of radiance in a person is a wide smile, and pregnant women are often said to have a glow or radiance because they’re full of life.
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an attractive combination of good health and happiness
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the quality of being bright and sending out rays of lightsynonyms: effulgence, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency, shinetypes:French polishthe glaze produced by repeated applications of French polish shellacglazea glossy finish on a fabricpatinaa sheen or gloss on a surface, especially resulting from use or agetype of:brightnessthe location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white
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the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surfacetypes:type of:light, visible light, visible radiation(physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
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