lucency

[ loo-suhn-see ]

noun

the quality or degree of clarity or translucence:Suspended solids are an essential variable in assessing the lucency of the water, a key issue in the development of submerged vegetation.
a clear or translucent area:The chest x-ray showed a large lucency on the left hemithorax and a collapsed left lung.

Literary. a resplendent quality; radiance or brilliance:I felt a gradation move through what I beheld, like the sweep of lucency across a vast sheet of glazed light.

Origin of lucency

¹

luc(ent) + -ency

Rarely lu·cence [loo-suhns] /ˈlu səns/ .

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How to use lucency in a sentence

How vividly it recalls a certain wild pool of strange, dim lucence where, for me, the trout would take no other lure.
The Tent Dwellers | Albert Bigelow Paine
She gave herself time to adore the drapery, with its changes of meteoric lucence, before she rose and took it.
Fennel and Rue | William Dean Howells

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