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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Eclipses allow scientists to study the sun's wispy outer atmosphere, known as the corona, which is usually swamped by our star's immense brightness.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
7 Apr. 2026 -
Still, 766 nits peak brightness is pretty good for a cheap TV.—
Will Greenwald,
PC Magazine,
6 Apr. 2026
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Amon and her actors find many moments of visual humor with dancing and audience interaction that bring a lot of life and lightness to the play.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Apr. 2026
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Are laughter and lightness merely opiates, or tools of the revolution, or both, or neither?—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
30 Mar. 2026
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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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Rather, these plays are about in-the-moment brilliance.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2026
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The shooter’s French-speaking sidekick, Iris, performed with biting brilliance by Julie Helga, addresses him as a friend, but the creators have gone out of their way to avoid glorifying him or his nihilistic destruction.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
7 Apr. 2026
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Priority 2 is figuring out what is achievable under a wide range of illumination.—
Leonard David,
Space.com,
6 Apr. 2026
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As a result, Young said, the astronauts will be able to look at the same locations more than once with different angles of illumination.—
Ava Berger,
NPR,
6 Apr. 2026
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“Lambency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lambency. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.
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