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Answer for the clue "The quality of allowing light to pass diffusely ", 12 letters:
translucence

Word definitions for translucence in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. the state of being translucent

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of allowing light to pass diffusely [syn: translucency , semitransparency ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Medieval Latin translucentia , from Latin translucentem (see translucenct ). Related: Translucency .\n

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Translucence is the physical property of allowing light to pass through a material diffusely. Translucence may also refer to: Social translucence , a concept in social information processing Translucence (John Foxx and Harold Budd album) , a 2003 ambient ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Translucence \Trans*lu"cence\, Translucency \Trans*lu"cen*cy\, n. The quality or state of being translucent; clearness; partial transparency. --Sir T. Browne.

Usage examples of translucence.

A darker jade than those of Lali, but as pure, with all the depth and none of the translucence.

Even as she watched, it faded further, to the strange translucence of the twelfth of heaven, and the stars vanished completely, leaving only their coronae blazing against a flat black sky.

In that undertime, drawn by the crimson line like an iron filing to a lodestone, the thin black curtain seemed to fade into dark translucence.

Then, nearly in synch with each other, the jellies began to flip over and fade into translucence, a maneuver he recalled from the Deneb encounter.

His skin had the translucence of great age, exposing the blue mapwork of his veins.

Marguerite had taken her normal form except for the slight translucence that was mandated of fully nannite entities.

He watched the dying sunlight on the pale, powder blue translucence of the porcelain that seemed to enhance the golden sheen of the dry La Ina sherry.

A sphere carved from an extraordinarily large piece of Siberian emerald matrix weighing approximately one thousand three hundred carats and of a superb color and vivid translucence, represents a terrestrial globe supported upon an elaborate rocaille scroll mount finely chased in quatre-couleur gold and set with a profusion of rose-diamonds and small emeralds of intense color, to form a table-clock.

At first all you saw was a cool, green, glimmering translucence, like the sea when you are swimming under water on a still summer day and look up through it.