incandescence
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French incandescence.
Morphologically incandesce + -ence.
Pronunciation
Noun
incandescence (usually uncountable, plural incandescences)
- (physics) the emission of visible light by a hot body
- the light so emitted
- (by extension) great emotion, especially anger
- 1983 April 16, Harry Hay, “Peter Pans”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
- That sensual triggering which is to awaken them into the incandescence of Gay Consciousness to which world of Spirit a loving sexual flowering is both "open sesame" and Gateway.
Translations
emission of visible light by a hot body
French
Noun
incandescence f (plural incandescences)
Further reading
- “incandescence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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