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Incandescence

//ˌɪn.kænˈdɛs.əns// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    the emission of visible light by a hot body uncountable, usually
  2. 2
    light from heat wordnet
  3. 3
    the light so emitted uncountable, usually
  4. 4
    the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised wordnet
  5. 5
    great emotion, especially anger broadly, uncountable, usually

    "That sensual triggering which is to awaken them into the incandescence of Gay Consciousness to which world of Spirit a loving sexual flowering is both "open sesame" and Gateway."

Etymology

Borrowed from French incandescence. Morphologically incandesce + -ence.

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