Crossword clues for brightness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brightness \Bright"ness\, n. [AS. beorhines. See Bright.]
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The quality or state of being bright; splendor; luster; brilliancy; clearness.
A sudden brightness in his face appear.
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Acuteness (of the faculties); sharpness 9wit.
The brightness of his parts . . . distinguished him.
--Prior.Syn: Splendor; luster; radiance; resplendence; brilliancy; effulgence; glory; clearness.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English beorhtnes "brightness, clearness, splendor, beauty;" see bright + -ness.
Wiktionary
n. The quality of being bright.
WordNet
n. the location of a visual perception along the black-to-white continuum [ant: dullness]
intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty [syn: cleverness, smartness]
the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light; "its luminosity is measured relative to that of our sun" [syn: luminosity, brightness level, luminance, luminousness, light]
Wikipedia
Brightness is an attribute of visual perception in which a source appears to be radiating or reflecting light. In other words, brightness is the perception elicited by the luminance of a visual target. This is a subjective attribute/property of an object being observed and one of the color appearance parameters of color appearance models. Brightness refers to an absolute term and should not be confused with Lightness.
Usage examples of "brightness".
Inattentive to a conversation, which was passing between the Countess and a Mademoiselle Bearn, her friend, Blanche sat, lost in pleasing reverie, as she watched the clouds floating silently along the blue expanse, now veiling the sun and stretching their shadows along the distant scene, and then disclosing all his brightness.
She seemed to Bernard now to have a great and peculiar brightness-- something she had never had before.
She blushed as soon as she had spoken, and Bernard found a beauty in this of which the brightness blinded him to the awkward aspect of the fact she had just presented to Gordon.
Though not gifted with the strength and suppleness of a great humorist, he had an intermingled sweetness and brightness beyond even the alchemy of Addison.
The only unifying theme to the beaded or embroidered or woven patterns of their dress seemed to be the brightness of the colors and the narwhal motif.
The radiant domes and illuminated towers bathed them in brightness as a flowbelt took their group along a central passway toward the Palace of Celebration.
Now he was bearing the sacred chalice and patten, while before him, somber and pale, Murzuflos paced, carrying a lighted lantern in the brightness of noon.
Rosie made a milk porridge and I tried for her sake to eat some of this stuff, but it and the tin spoon made a grey tableau before me and I heard in my mind the sobbing and lamenting of the old Merivel for the colours and brightness of things now lost.
There was a cheerful, proclamatory brightness in these uniforms, which broadcast at a glance who these people were, what they did for a living, and what they stood for.
The profuseness of the illuminations outdid the brightness of the meridian sun.
Koglaur from Sarinda suddenly extended an impossibly long finger down at its brightness, to point at the scene therein, and more specifically at a bat flapping low across the Silverflow in broad daylight.
Her little blue eyes sparkled as she looked up at him, a brightness to her face.
Her eyes lit up and sparkled from the brightness of the snow like beautiful gemstones.
She thought of the stellated brightness spinning towards her and what had she fancied about it being, her soul?
Every surface is worked over with color, fields of fog cut with strokes of unapologetic brightness.