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Adjective

luminescent (comparative more luminescent, superlative most luminescent)

  • Emitting light by luminescence.
    • ✤ But this does not have the slightly yellow glow of things made with luminescent dye.1

Etymology

From stem of Latin lumen (“light”) +‎ -escent, equivalent to luminesce +‎ -ent.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /luːmɪˈnɛs(ə)nt/
  • Audio (Southern England): 🔊
  • Hyphenation: lumin‧es‧cent
  • Rhymes: -ɛsənt

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Footnotes

  1. 2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 218: ↩

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