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Self-luminous

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Light-emitting.

    "It has been a question whether comets are self-luminous, or whether they simply reflect the solar light."

  2. 2
    Having a luminosity exceeding 100%.
  3. 3
    Prominent or famous for virtue or greatness. figuratively

    "How the few such that have lived in the world stand out, self-luminous, amidst the darkness of the past, surrounded by the wreck of names remembered only for their crimes, and pointing to the admiring gaze of men the true path to glory's temple!"

  4. 4
    Self-illuminating; knowable only as its unambiguous self; self-evident.

    "The active sense of living which we all enjoy, before reflection shatters our instinctive world for us, is self-luminous and suggests no paradoxes."

  5. 5
    Self-illuminating; knowable only as its unambiguous self; self-evident.; Self-aware; knowable by itself. India

    "Finally, life emerges as a self-conscious, self-luminous Intelligence in man who not only thinks, feels and moves but is also conscious of being the subject, the knower of thinking, feeling and willing and controls, directs all these fluctuating States and processes of mind either towards the service of the self or towards bondage to mundane values."

Adjective
  1. 1
    having in itself the property of emitting light wordnet

Etymology

From self- + luminous.

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