brightness

Other forms of brightness

plural

brightnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about brightness

What does brightness mean?

brightness means "the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brightness?

brightness has 2 syllables: bright-ness. The stress falls on "bright". In IPA it is /ˈbɹaɪtnəs/.

What is another word for brightness?

Close synonyms include cleverness, smartness, luminosity, brightness level, luminance. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of brightness?

The recorded antonyms are dullness.

Is brightness a common word?

brightness is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.