Relucency
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Dispersion of light within the eye (leading to loss of focus), a typical symptom of cataracts. countable, uncountable
"Each has a complex cellular structure, which leads to some internal dispersion of light, a feature called ‘relucency’. The more dense the optical structure is, the greater is its relucency. Relucency is a measure of the heterogeneity of a medium. There is no relucency in quality glass."
Example
More examples"Each has a complex cellular structure, which leads to some internal dispersion of light, a feature called ‘relucency’. The more dense the optical structure is, the greater is its relucency. Relucency is a measure of the heterogeneity of a medium. There is no relucency in quality glass."
Etymology
From relucent + -ency.
More for "relucency"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.