brightness constancy

1. 1.

   the tendency for a visual object to be perceived as having the same brightness under widely different conditions of illumination

   Broaderconstancy

Questions about brightness constancy

What does brightness constancy mean?

brightness constancy means "the tendency for a visual object to be perceived as having the same brightness under widely different conditions of illumination".

Is brightness constancy a common word?

brightness constancy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.