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
Such lights can adjust their brightness based on movements by pedestrians or traffic or even on weather conditions.
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Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2025
Both Boox and Kindle ereaders share similar front lighting that adjusts for both brightness and warmth.
—PC Magazine, 7 Nov. 2025
For stargazers in the northern hemisphere, comet 3I/ATLAS will appear in the coming week in increating brightness, moving northward in the night sky.
—Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
So much love is poured into each recipe to bring the brightness and warmth of the garden to your home in every season.
—Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2025
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Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2025
Both Boox and Kindle ereaders share similar front lighting that adjusts for both brightness and warmth.
—PC Magazine, 7 Nov. 2025
For stargazers in the northern hemisphere, comet 3I/ATLAS will appear in the coming week in increating brightness, moving northward in the night sky.
—Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
So much love is poured into each recipe to bring the brightness and warmth of the garden to your home in every season.
—Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brightness
Noun
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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.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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Family circles will have wrapped themselves in the holy pleasures of the great occasion, and everywhere the grand old holiday will have been introduced with all the majesty and brilliancy which clings around the hallowed name of Christmas.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American-Statesman,
23 Dec. 2024
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Players like Pedri, Gavi, and Lamine Yamal bring youthful brilliance and creativity, while veterans such as Rodri provide leadership and control in midfield.—
Ben Verbrugge,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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Dark Renaissance will teach you a great deal about Marlowe’s brilliance and the Elizabethan era—its theater, the aristocracy, the spy craft, and the finer points of drawing and quartering religious dissidents.—
Isaac Butler,
The Atlantic,
3 Nov. 2025
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Her film holds a rare balance of lightness and depth, moving originally between humor and vulnerability without ever losing emotional truth.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
27 Oct. 2025
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The frontier dissolves into the lightness of air, and the world is full of holes.—
Henry Freedland,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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Using laser light of different colors, the Rice team studied how a two-layer Janus TMD—molybdenum sulfur selenide stacked on molybdenum disulfide—responded to illumination through a process called second harmonic generation (SHG).—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Nov. 2025
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Throughout the entire film, the light in the characters’ eyes, too… the Infinity Castle movie is a work of art that makes abundant use of torchlights and illumination.—
Billboard Japan,
Billboard,
28 Oct. 2025
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You’ll be surprised by the luminosity of ingredients like bergamot, turmeric, and peppercorn that come with this offering, whose sharpness is cut through by the sweetness of fig and the citrusy woodiness of petitgrain.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
23 Oct. 2025
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The luminosity of this image is the result of the sun’s rays shining on the planet, where they’re either reflected or absorbed by materials on Earth’s surface and in our atmosphere.—
Ryan Green,
Scientific American,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Brightness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brightness. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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