Luminousness [noun]

Probably her artistic instincts suggested that a dark background would set off more effectively her own glorious luminousness.

These lights might be very tiny arc-lights, for each one vibrates in the intensity of its luminousness.

It was radiantly, excitedly pale; the soft luminousness of it might make a man forget many things.

They have a ghostly, almost phosphorescent luminousness in the shadow of the valley, by the stream of water.

In the laboratory this term is commonly applied to the act of heating to redness or luminousness.

He placed it in the thin streak of daylight, and its luminousness was almost immediately restored.

Love and science contrived the diffused, soothing luminousness of the brothers dining hall.

The fall in luminousness was also very striking as far as the green; the blue also suffered, but not so much as the other colours.

These are windows out of which shine a vivid green luminousness, which appears to fill the interior of the chest.

He lay awake thinking of June in the luminousness of a night-light shielded from his direct vision by a basin.