radiance
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Origin of radiance
1- Also radiancy.
Other words for radiance
Other words from radiance
- non·ra·di·ance, noun
- sub·ra·di·ance, noun
- su·per·ra·di·ance, noun
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How to use radiance in a sentence
His contest emphasized imagination and the radiance of beauty from within.
Baltimore’s ‘Visionary’ curator prepares to step down | Ed Gunts | September 23, 2021 | Washington BladeWhen “Carnaval Del Barrio” rolls around near the finale, its radiance is so practically blinding that your instinct should be to look away.
The Dazzling ‘In the Heights’ May Be the Best Movie Musical in Decades | Kevin Fallon | June 11, 2021 | The Daily BeastBlackout is both a short story collection and a novel of a moment in time, capturing the radiance, joy and possibility of teen romance.
Rebecca’s life of worry shows on her face—with cheekbones that accept and reflect light as if it were a gift, she’s never anything less than beautiful, but her radiance glows through a veil of anxiety.
Cicely Tyson Didn't Just Open Doors—She Opened Whole Worlds | Stephanie Zacharek | January 29, 2021 | TimeOn Saturday, some leaves flamed scarlet in the radiance of the day.
A fine, bright day in Washington, but the curtain descends quickly | Martin Weil | November 29, 2020 | Washington Post
And not that after-sex glow, but the radiance of contentment.
Sasha Grey on Her Novel ‘The Juliette Society,’ James Deen, and More | Marlow Stern | August 27, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIn it, grim headlines and social problems give way to an improbable radiance.
Lorraine Adams Reviews ‘Our Lady of Alice Bhatti’ by Mohammed Hanif | Lorraine Adams | May 30, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTBut they do make the family seem a shade more like the rest of America, in all its messy, tacky, imperfect radiance.
Turning Spotlight on Mitt Romney Siblings Could Help Humanize GOP Nominee | Michelle Cottle | May 30, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTHer beauty seems to telegraph an inner radiance of well-honed intelligence and gentle self-assurance.
They walked together to a recess in the garden, where they sat down under the full radiance of the unclouded moon.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4 | Jane PorterShe glanced up at him softly, under long lashes,—a thrilling glance; but he missed its radiance, for his own eyes were far away.
Rosemary in Search of a Father | C. N. WilliamsonThe clear and radiant sky was drowned in a quivering radiance of gold, that was like a thing alive and sensitively palpitating.
Bella Donna | Robert HichensRamona herself bore no impress of sorrow; rather her face had now an added radiance.
Ramona | Helen Hunt JacksonEvery individual freckle on her thin, sharp face seemed to shine as though there was some radiance behind it.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn | Margaret Penrose
British Dictionary definitions for radiance
radiancy
/ (ˈreɪdɪəns) /
the quality or state of being radiant
a measure of the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface. It is the radiant intensity in a given direction of a small element of surface area divided by the orthogonal projection of this area onto a plane at right angles to the direction: Symbol: L e
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