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
And if the source is an object that remains steady in brightness and doesn’t flare with activity, zeroing in on the neutrino’s origin feels impossible.
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Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
26 June 2026
The big draw of this lightweight PC is its stunning 14-inch OLED screen, which delivers rich, realistic colors with DisplayHDR True Black 500 and 600 nits of peak brightness.
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K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
25 June 2026
The study measured light in lux, a standard unit of brightness.
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Emily Kay Votruba,
EverydayHealth.com,
25 June 2026
The Philips Hue smart bulb starter kit comes with color-changing bulbs with 800 lumens of peak brightness that can be controlled with Alexa, Google Assistant, or the companion app.
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Sheena Vasani,
The Verge,
24 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for brightness
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
26 June 2026
The big draw of this lightweight PC is its stunning 14-inch OLED screen, which delivers rich, realistic colors with DisplayHDR True Black 500 and 600 nits of peak brightness.
—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
25 June 2026
The study measured light in lux, a standard unit of brightness.
—
Emily Kay Votruba,
EverydayHealth.com,
25 June 2026
The Philips Hue smart bulb starter kit comes with color-changing bulbs with 800 lumens of peak brightness that can be controlled with Alexa, Google Assistant, or the companion app.
—
Sheena Vasani,
The Verge,
24 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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Perhaps not even his cautious approach can shackle the brilliance of this squad.
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His individual brilliance translated to team success, as Manchester City won a continental treble (victories in the Premier League championship; the Football Association (FA) Cup, England’s annual knockout tournament; and the Champions League) for the first time.
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The movement here is made from 274 components, with a focus on lightness, transparency, and volume.
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Ease, fluidity and lightness in terms of proportion and material — silk, linen and cotton.
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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 30 Jun. 2026.
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