luminousness
English
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editluminousness (countable and uncountable, plural luminousnesses)
- The quality of being luminous.
- 1927, Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop, Book VII, section 2, page 212:
- The full moon, hidden by veils of cloud, threw a pale phosphorescent luminousness over the heavens, and the towers of the church stood up black against this silvery fleece.