as in brilliancy
the quality or state of having or giving off light
the brightness of the sunshine made me squint after an afternoon spent in a darkened movie theater
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Recent Examples of brightness
Daylight floods in through floor-to-ceiling windows, drenching the space in brightness and making everything—from the custom bookshelf door to the bathroom to the privacy divider—feel sculptural.
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Bailey Berg, Architectural Digest, 9 Aug. 2025
The big 65-inch display features LG's Brightness Booster technology, which improves light control to achieve more brightness than other OLED TV models.
—George Yang, PC Magazine, 6 Aug. 2025
Deadly accidents occur disproportionately at night, as headlight brightness has increased.
—Matt Fuchs, Time, 4 Aug. 2025
Love the idea of orange nails but not ready for the brightness?
—Catharine Malzahn, Glamour, 31 July 2025
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Bailey Berg, Architectural Digest, 9 Aug. 2025
The big 65-inch display features LG's Brightness Booster technology, which improves light control to achieve more brightness than other OLED TV models.
—George Yang, PC Magazine, 6 Aug. 2025
Deadly accidents occur disproportionately at night, as headlight brightness has increased.
—Matt Fuchs, Time, 4 Aug. 2025
Love the idea of orange nails but not ready for the brightness?
—Catharine Malzahn, Glamour, 31 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for brightness
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brightness
Noun
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Pinnacle of splendor On Sunday morning, April 27, Venus comes up in total darkness while shining at its greatest brilliancy (magnitude –4.7).—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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So, astronomers have come up with a compromise regarding the geometry of the sun's illumination angle on Venus' disk versus its distance from Earth to determine the time of Venus' greatest brilliancy.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
4 Apr. 2025
Noun
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There is a brilliance inside you that can’t be replicated.—
ByDr. Marita Kinney,
Forbes.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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There have been flashes of brilliance, but so far, he’s not looked like the salvation of the rotation.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
16 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Adding lightness might just do the trick to convince this section of the market.—
Mattias Goldmann,
Forbes.com,
17 Aug. 2025
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For other audiences, the film’s lightness of touch will have to do.—
Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
15 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The Sturgeon Moon will reach peak illumination on Aug. 9 at 3:55 a.m. EST, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac.—
Cailey Gleeson,
jsonline.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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The full Corn or Harvest Moon should reach peak illumination by Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025.—
Marina Johnson,
The Courier-Journal,
7 Aug. 2025
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Its luminosity is about 20,000 times brighter than our sun, but that's typical, albeit a bit on the low-end, for red supergiants.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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In early seasons, characters were hand-drawn over watercolor backdrops that bore a subtle luminosity.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
2 Aug. 2025
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“Brightness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brightness. Accessed 29 Aug. 2025.
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