as in brightness
the quality or state of having or giving off light
there's a special luminousness to the air over the island that painters and photographers have long sought to capture
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The addition of orange gives this gorgeously vibrant sauce a zing of brightness that's a perfect pairing with its decidedly festive hue.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
10 Nov. 2025 -
Thereafter, however, the moon has been setting later in the evening and has been slowly waning in brightness.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
10 Nov. 2025
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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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