lucency
noun
the quality or degree of clarity or translucence.
lucence
-
a variation of
lucency.
Example Sentences
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That thin lucence is called the Zodiacal light.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its warm lucence promised a poultice against illness and a wall against insult.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
And then deliberately the whole universe turned faintly gray, and the smaller stars faded in the lucence of dawn, and the brief, weird world of half-light came into being.
From The Adventures of Bobby Orde by Worth Brehm
High in the ancient forest the magnolias burn the perfect alban lucence of their lamps; white are their ivory cups like priestly linen, and fragrant with the tang of foreign citrons.
From Carolina Chansons Legends of the Low Country by DuBose Heyward
She gave herself time to adore the drapery, with its changes of meteoric lucence, before she rose and took it.
From Fennel and Rue by William Dean Howells
