LAMBENCY Synonyms: 64 Similar and Opposite Words

lambency

noun

ˈlam-bən(t)-sē

Definition of lambency

as in brightness

the quality or state of having or giving off light the lambency of the sunlit stained-glass window was breathtaking

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Noun

While the telescope’s Galactic Bulge survey is designed to primarily search for microlensing events, Roman will also repeatedly measure the brightness of hundreds of millions of stars along the way.

— Thomas Fauchez, The Conversation, 14 Sep. 2026
However, at infrared wavelengths the brightness of an object is dependent mostly on its size, allowing accurate determinations of the diameters of the 27 TNOs.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of brightness

Noun

While the film’s logline hints at something a bit darker — a young woman makes her way through the rarefied world of New York literary mags in the years before #MeToo is even a glimmer — there’s a real lightness to the final film.

— Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2026
Gloria somehow held the urgency of it all without ever losing her lightness.

— Emma Watson, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of lightness

Noun

Greatest brilliancy marks the sweet spot between the two, when Venus' apparent size and shrinking phase combine to give us the greatest apparent area of illuminated Venus in our sky.

— Anthony Wood, Space.com, 18 Sep. 2026
The result is an incredible repository of vexations, bafflements, witticisms, and brilliancies.

— Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 1 June 2026

Definition of brilliancy

Noun

Luxe Dominoes boxes are made from a single piece of acrylic that's heated, folded and then flame-polished to give the sets unique brilliance – treated more like glass than acrylic.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026
Success doesn’t come from one‑time brilliance, but from repeatable processes.

— Alec Litowitz, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of brilliance

Noun

The salt forms a passivation layer that helps protect the material from defects and degradation under prolonged illumination.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2026
This is because their illumination is spread throughout the entire display rather than solely along the edges.

— BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of illumination

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