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US
/ˈbɹaɪtnəs/
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[ UK /bɹˈaɪtnəs/ ]
[ UK /bɹˈaɪtnəs/ ]
NOUN
- intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty
- the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white
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the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light
its luminosity is measured relative to that of our sun
How To Use brightness In A Sentence
- The King looked at him and seeing him to be yet comelier than his daughter and goodlier than she in stature and proportion and brightness and perfection, said to him, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- The contrast or brightness of the image can be varied to emphasise areas or tissues of interest. Times, Sunday Times
- It took a moment to acclimatize to the sudden light and to the brightness of violent colour; there was blood everywhere. CHAMELEON
- Certainly all reports spoke of genuine smiles on the Girls' faces, of their brightness and animation.
- At another time it might have been a pretty journey, the hills just turning the colors of pumpkin and hay and pomegranate and the skies depthless and clear, but now everywhere one looked most of the trees had been felled for fuel and there was only a hazy, oppressive brightness refracted from the shorn hillsides. Excerpt: The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee
- Look at the brightness of what lies ahead and work out a way to make it come to you.
- She has a very sunny disposition and just burns brightness. The Sun
- A gradual decrease ( fade - out ) or increase ( fade-in ) of the brightness of an image, or the volume of an audio signal.
- For now there are just the vestiges of the past—triumphs and disappointments alike—and the brightness of things to come.
- Always in the air, flying from flower to flower, it has their freshness as well as their brightness. It lives upon their nectar, and dwells only in the climates where they perennially bloom.