brightness
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Synonyms & Antonyms for brightness
Synonyms
brilliance, brilliancy, candor, dazzle, effulgence, illumination, lambency, lightness, luminance, luminosity, luminousness, luster (or lustre), lustrousness, radiance, refulgence, splendor
Antonyms
blackness, dark, darkness, dullness (also dulness), duskiness
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Their changes in brightness help astronomers pinpoint their position in the galaxy. — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, "New Map Simulates 220 Million Years of Star Formation," 1 Aug. 2019 Stars of a certain caliber and brightness get to be known by a single name. — John Adamian, courant.com, "Country sweetheart Reba McEntire coming to Foxwoods," 19 July 2019 When the pictures explode into brightness, these are the moments Madeon feels most alive. — Kat Bein, Billboard, "Madeon's Life Flashes Neon Rainbows in 'All My Friends' Video: Watch," 17 July 2019 The temperature of a planet depends in part on its distance from its host star (as well as that star's brightness). — John Timmer, Ars Technica, "TESS hits the trifecta: Nearby bright star has 3 interesting planets," 30 July 2019 Its mural festival jolted a dying city center back to life, and its other projects, like the installation of vintage neon signs and a multicolored lighting system, flooded dark corners with revivifying brightness. — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, "For public art in the Boston area, competing interests and big questions," 27 July 2019 To make all that brightness really pop, finish with an ink-black cat eye. — Maya Mcdowell, Marie Claire, "The Buzziest Beauty Microtrends of Summer 2019," 24 July 2019 The number of stars visible to the unaided human eye isn’t much more than 1,628, which is how many are registered at the 5th magnitude of a brightness scale used by scientists, Robert Zinn, an astronomer at Yale University, said in an email. — Bloomberg, The Mercury News, "Elon Musk’s satellites dot the heavens, leaving stargazers upset," 8 July 2019 There are still two front cameras, an earpiece, and two front sensors, which are typically a proximity sensor and an auto-brightness sensor. — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, "In renders, the Pixel 4 trades a giant notch for a giant forehead," 8 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'brightness.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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