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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Word of the Day

1 June 2025

BACKFIRE

(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; “Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble”; “the political movie backlashed on the Democrats”


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Coffee Trivia

The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.

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