English > brightness: 3 senses > noun 1, attribute| Meaning | The location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white. |
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| Narrower | dazzle | Brightness enough to blind partially and temporarily |
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| flash | A momentary brightness |
| glare, blaze, brilliance | A light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted |
| glint | A spatially localized brightness |
| glitter, glister, glisten, scintillation, sparkle | The quality of shining with a bright reflected light |
| luster, lustre, brilliancy, splendor, splendour | A quality that outshines the usual / usual |
| opalescence, iridescence | The visual property of something having a milky brightness and a play of colors from the surface |
| radiance, radiancy, shine, effulgence, refulgence, refulgency | The quality of being bright and sending out rays of light |
| Broader | light, lightness | The visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures / pictures |
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| Opposite | dullness | A lack of visual brightness |
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| Spanish | brillantez, brillo, luminosidad |
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| Catalan | lluminositat |
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| Adjectives | bright | emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts |
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| bright | having striking color |
