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bright·ness  (brtns)

n.

1. The state or quality of being bright.

2. The effect or sensation by means of which an observer is able to distinguish differences in luminance.

3. The dimension of a color that represents its similarity to one of a series of achromatic colors ranging from very dim (dark) to very bright (dazzling).

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brightness [ˈbraɪtnɪs]

n

1. the condition of being bright

2. (Physics / General Physics) Physics a former name for luminosity [4]

3. (Psychology) Psychol the experienced intensity of light

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Brightness 

See Also: GLITTER AND GLOSS, LIGHTING, SHINING

1. Blazing like the windows of the city —James Dickey
2. (He possessed a brainful of information,) bright and beautiful as diamonds swaddled in midnight-blue velvet —W. P. Kinsella
3. Bright and light as the crest of a peacock —Alfred, Lord Tennyson
4. Bright and pleasing as a child’s rattle —Virginia Woolf
5. Bright as a beach in the moonlight —Alfred Austin
6. (An image came to me across the years,) bright as a coin from the mint —Norman Mailer
7. Bright as a frog’s eyes —Hart Crane
8. Bright as all between cloudless skies and windless streams —Percy Bysshe Shelley
9. Bright as a nettle rash —Diane Ackerman
10. (Laugh … ) bright as a new ensign’s buttons —Frederic Wakeman
11. Bright as a newly painted toy —Hugh Walpole
12. Bright as an icon —Margaret Atwood
13. Bright as any glass —Geoffrey Chaucer
14. Bright as any meteor ever bred by the North Pole —Lord Byron
15. Bright as a parakeet —Dame Edith Sitwell
16. (Every day) bright as a postcard —Karl Shapiro
17. Bright as a roomful of chrystal chandeliers —Anon
18. Bright as a splinter from a glazier’s table —Beryl Markham
19. (A face) bright as a waterdrop —Padraic Fallon
20. Bright as day —Geoffrey Chaucer
21. Bright as foil —Molly Giles
22. Bright as freedom —Marge Piercy
23. Bright as joy —Hartley Coleridge
24. Bright as light —Alfred, Lord Tennyson
25. Bright as moonlight over snow —Wallace Stegner
26. Bright as Spring —Walter Savage Landor
27. (Eyes as) bright as the Dipper —Stephen Vincent Benét
28. Bright as the fullest moon in blackest air —Arabian Nights
29. Bright as the promises of a new administration —Elyse Sommer
30. Bright as the promise of life on commencement day —Elyse Sommer
31. Bright as the promise of a cloudless day —C. P. Wilson
32. Bright as the raindrops and roses in June —Dame Edith Sitwell
33. Bright as the world was in its infant years —John Banks
34. Bright as truth —Barry Cornwall
35. Bright like a brimming bowl of jewels —Peter De Vries
36. Bright, like a flash of sunlight —Edward Bulwer-Lytton
37. Bright (eyes) like agate —D. H. Lawrence
38. Bright like blood —Algernon Charles Swinburne
39. Brightness … bright as dipper —Stephen Vincent Benet
40. Brilliant as a postage stamp —Lawrence Durrell
41. (Eyes) brilliant as fire —Nadine Gordimer
42. [Oranges and grapefruits] brilliant as planets —Cynthia Ozick
43. Brilliant as the stars —Ouida
44. Brilliant as the sun —Slogan, Lustberg-Nast, Lustray shirts
45. Brilliant like a Chinese porcelain —W. Somerset Maugham
46. Brilliantly, gaudily colored as a Gypsy camp —Kate Simon
47. Dazzled the eyes like a second noonday sun —Edna Ferber
48. Growing brighter and brighter like a forest after a rain —Denis Johnson
49. Lights up like a Star Wars pinball machine —Marge Piercy
50. [Face] light up like a bonfire of joy —Carl Sandburg
51. Vivid as sun through a thin brown bottle —Reynolds Price
52. Vivid as the granules of paint in a Dubuffet —John Updike

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	brightness - the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white lightness, light - the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures; "he could paint the lightest light and the darkest dark" brilliance, glare, blaze - a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted; "a glare of sunlight" dazzle - brightness enough to blind partially and temporarily glisten, glister, glitter, sparkle, scintillation - the quality of shining with a bright reflected light flash - a momentary brightness glint - a spatially localized brightness iridescence, opalescence - the visual property of something having a milky brightness and a play of colors from the surface radiancy, refulgence, refulgency, shine, effulgence, radiance - the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light brilliancy, luster, splendor, splendour, lustre - a quality that outshines the usual dullness - a lack of visual brightness; "the brightness of the orange sky was reflected in the dullness of the orange sea"
	2.	brightness - intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty cleverness, smartness intelligence - the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience
	3.	brightness - the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light; "its luminosity is measured relative to that of our sun" brightness level, luminance, luminosity, luminousness, light physical property - any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions illuminance, illumination - the luminous flux incident on a unit area incandescence - light from heat glow, luminescence - light from nonthermal sources

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brightness

noun

1. vividness, richness, intensity, brilliance, splendour, resplendence You'll be impressed with the brightness of the colors.

2. light, shine, sparkle, glare, brilliance, radiance, luminosity, incandescence, effulgence, refulgence An astronomer can determine the brightness of each star.
light dullness, dimness

3. intelligence, intellect, brains (informal), awareness, sharpness, alertness, cleverness, quickness, acuity, brain power, smarts (slang, chiefly U.S.), smartness Her brightness seemed quite intimidating to me.

Translations

brightness [ˈbraɪtnɪs]

A. N

1. [of light, sun, fire, eyes, metal] → brillo m, resplandor m; [of morning, day] → claridad f, luminosidad f; [of colour] → viveza f

2. (= cheerfulness) → alegría f, animación f

3. (= cleverness) → inteligencia f

4. (= promise) [of future, prospects] → lo prometedor

B. CPD brightness control N (TV) → botón m de ajuste del brillo

brightness [ˈbraɪtnɪs] n

[colour] → éclat m

[star] → luminosité f

[light] → intensité f
bright spark n → petit(e) futé(e) > m/f

brightness

n

(of light, fire) → Helligkeit f; (of colour) → Leuchten nt; (of sunshine, star also, eyes, gem) → Strahlen nt; (of day, weather) → Heiterkeit f; (of reflection) → Stärke f; (of metal) → Glanz m; brightness control → Helligkeitsregler m

(= cheerfulness: of person, smile) → Fröhlichkeit f, → Heiterkeit f

(= intelligence, of person) → Intelligenz f; (of child) → Aufgewecktheit f

(of prospects) → Freundlichkeit f; the brightness of the future → die glänzende Zukunft

brightness [ˈbraɪtnɪs] n (of room) → luminosità; (of eyes, star) → lucentezza; (of sunshine) → splendore m; (of flame, colour) → vivacità