radiance
radiance Lexical Profile
radiance Game Scores & Validity
• noun
Light or heat as emitted or reflected by something; vivid brightness or luminosity.
"The golden radiance of the setting sun illuminated the mountain peaks."
A glowing quality of great joy, love, or health visible in a person's face or demeanor.
"Everyone at the celebration noticed the youthful radiance in her smile."
In physics and optics, the radiant flux emitted, reflected, transmitted, or received by a given surface, per unit solid angle per unit projected area.
"Satellite sensors measure the spectral radiance of the ocean surface to monitor phytoplankton concentrations."
• Rhymes for radiance
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 16th century from Medieval Latin radiantia, derived from Latin radians ('shining, beaming'), the present participle of radiare ('to emit rays'), from radius ('spoke of a wheel, ray of light').