luminosity

Other forms of luminosity

plural

luminosities·

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 luminosity

What does luminosity mean?

luminosity means "the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light".

How many syllables are in luminosity?

luminosity has 5 syllables: lu-mi-no-si-ty. The stress falls on "no".

What is another word for luminosity?

Close synonyms include brightness, brightness level, luminance, luminousness, light. 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.

Is luminosity a common word?

luminosity 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.