Brightness
['braɪtnɪs]
Definition
(noun.) the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white.
(noun.) intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty.
Editor: Pedro--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being bright; splendor; luster; brilliancy; clearness.
(n.) Acuteness (of the faculties); sharpness 9wit.
Editor: Ronda
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Lustre, splendor, brilliancy, radiance, resplendence, effulgence.[2]. Clearness, transparency, lucidity.[3]. Acuteness, ingenuity, sagacity, acumen, astuteness, discernment, mother-wit, quick parts.
Edited by Ervin
Examples
- She fell asleep, hoping for some brightness, either internal or external. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- As the golden swim of light overhead died out, the moon gained brightness, and seemed to begin to smile forth her ascendancy. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the great city. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- A particular shade of any colour may acquire a new degree of liveliness or brightness without any other variation. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- When Mr. Hale came in, Margaret went out, oppressed with gloom, and seeing no promise of brightness on any side of the horizon. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It was as the day went on that the clouds gathered, and the brightness of the morning became obscured. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The English mind again had a phase of brightness in the seventh and eighth centuries, and it did not shine again until the fifteenth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Meanwhile the last moments of the performance seemed to gain an added brightness from the hovering threat of the curtain. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The light diminishes in brightness much more rapidly than we realize, as the following simple experiment will show. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Man walked forth, elated with the scene; and all was brightness and splendour. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Yet her voice had the same defensive brightness as she spoke to Birkin's landlady at the door. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Earth was past,--and earthly pain; but so solemn, so mysterious, was the triumphant brightness of that face, that it checked even the sobs of sorrow. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The walls were whitewashed as white as milk, and the patchwork counterpane made my eyes quite ache with its brightness. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The two sisters worked on in silence, Ursula having always that strange brightness of an essential flame that is caught, meshed, contravened. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But the very brightness outside made the colours within seem poor and faded. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
Editor: Ronda