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lambency
noun[ U ]
literaryuk /ˈlæm.bən.si/ us /ˈlæm.bən.si/
lambencynoun[U] (LIGHT)
a gentle shining light:
He describes the copper bartop as humming with warm lambency.
Looking into the lambency of his hooded eyes, I could detect no whiting-out, no glaucoma or cataract.
Out of this lambency, the Meri rose, radiant, beautiful, all of grace and Light.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
The qualities of light
backlit
black light
brightly
brilliantly
coruscating
dazzlingly
dullness
floodlit
incandescent
lambent
luminescence
luminosity
lustrously
non-fluorescent
non-solar
overcast
shimmering
spangly
undulled
unshaded
lambencynoun[U] (HUMOUR)
the quality of being interesting, clever and humorous, without being unkind:
He loved the poet's combination of ferocity and lambency.
A longtime Californian, he knowingly evokes the lambency of local yuppie culture.
The music has none of Rimsky-Korsakoff's soft felicity and lambency and light sensuousness.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Humour & humorous
amusingly
bitingly
blackly
bone dryidiom
bring
drily
gag
geddit?
GSOH
jocose
lightly
non-serious
pawky
photobomb
photobombing
playfully
rib
standing joke
wag
wisecrack
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