Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
LUMINOUSNESS
luminosity, brightness, brightness level, luminance, luminousness, light
(noun) the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light; “its luminosity is measured relative to that of our sun”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
luminousness (countable and uncountable, plural luminousnesses)
The quality of being luminous.
Source: Wiktionary
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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