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Diaphanous

//daɪˈæf.ən.əs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Transparent or translucent; allowing light to pass through; capable of being seen through.

    "The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marsh was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds."

  2. 2
    Of a fine, almost transparent, texture; gossamer; light and insubstantial.

    "1951, Robert Frost, Unpublished preface to a collection, 2007, Mark Richardson (editor), The Collected Prose of Robert Frost, page 169, The most diaphanous wings carry a burden of pollen from flower to flower."

  3. 3
    Isorefractive, having an identical refractive index.
Adjective
  1. 1
    so thin as to transmit light wordnet

Etymology

From Medieval Latin diaphanus, from Ancient Greek διαφανής (diaphanḗs), from δια- (dia-, “through”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “to shine, appear”).

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