scintillescent

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsɪntɪˈlɛsənt/

Adjective

scintillescent (comparative more scintillescent, superlative most scintillescent)

1. scintillating feebly
   • 1860, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, Lucile:

     […] And poised herself loose in mid-heaven, with one pale, / Minute, scintillescent, and tremulous star / Swinging under her globe like a wizard-lit car […]

   • 2015 September 15, Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Tor Books, page 327:

     They walked the forest path through geometries of sieved and scintillescent light. A bird called above, and Baru, remembering old habit, thinking of Taranoke, made a note in her census: one hawk.

Related terms

• scintillescence