as in brilliancy
the quality or state of having or giving off light
the brightness of the sunshine made me squint after an afternoon spent in a darkened movie theater
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Recent Examples of brightness
The first thing creators look for on a TV is not brightness, but the depth of black and the details that come to life within it.
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Nam Sunwoo,
Variety,
19 June 2026
The monitor has stunning contrast as well, with 1000 nit peak brightness to bring out the both the most illuminating and darkest corners of the screen.
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George Yang,
PC Magazine,
19 June 2026
Other features of the Honor Watch 6 include dual-band GPS, peak 3,000-nit brightness, a microphone with noice note feature and NFC for wireless payments.
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Andrew Williams,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
Each meteor was classified based on 13 properties, including its speed, brightness and its height.
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Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
17 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for brightness
Nam Sunwoo,
Variety,
19 June 2026
The monitor has stunning contrast as well, with 1000 nit peak brightness to bring out the both the most illuminating and darkest corners of the screen.
—
George Yang,
PC Magazine,
19 June 2026
Other features of the Honor Watch 6 include dual-band GPS, peak 3,000-nit brightness, a microphone with noice note feature and NFC for wireless payments.
—
Andrew Williams,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
Each meteor was classified based on 13 properties, including its speed, brightness and its height.
—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
17 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for brightness
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brightness
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The result is an incredible repository of vexations, bafflements, witticisms, and brilliancies.
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So, astronomers have come up with a compromise regarding the geometry of the sun's illumination angle on Venus' disk versus its distance from Earth to determine the time of Venus' greatest brilliancy.
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That England avoided what would have been an embarrassing last-sixteen exit to Slovakia was thanks mostly to the individual brilliance of Jude Bellingham, its attacking prodigy, who scissored in an acrobatic finish at the death.
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Your dazzling brilliance and unpretentious decency.
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The collection expressed an idea of contemporary simplicity, built through precise proportions, evolved materials and a new visual lightness.
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Choose Furniture With Raised Legs McClain creates visual lightness by choosing seating that is raised up from the floor.
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Obstacle avoidance is critical, as is collecting visual data of plant health and lighting conditions (natural and artificial LED illumination) for correlations over time, to improve yield.
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Inside, a string of skylights will provide almost all the natural illumination the library would ever need, held up by walls made solely of compressed earth.
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Terzan 5 is a globular cluster — a huge sphere of stars with a total mass two million times greater than our sun's and a total luminosity 800,000 times greater.
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From glossy tints to sheer, milky polishes, one of the biggest trends of summer is simply enhancing your natural nails’ luminosity.
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“Brightness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brightness. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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