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RADIANCY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does radiancy mean?
• RADIANCY (noun)
The noun RADIANCY has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light
Familiarity information: RADIANCY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being bright and sending out rays of light
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
effulgence; radiance; radiancy; refulgence; refulgency; shine
Hypernyms ("radiancy" is a kind of...):
brightness (the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "radiancy"):
gleam; gleaming; glow; lambency (an appearance of reflected light)
luster; lustre; sheen; shininess (the visual property of something that shines with reflected light)
burnish; gloss; glossiness; polish (the property of being smooth and shiny)
Derivation:
radiant (radiating or as if radiating light)
radiate (send out rays or waves)
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