luminousness

Other forms of luminousness

plural

luminousnesses·

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 luminousness

What does luminousness mean?

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

How many syllables are in luminousness?

luminousness has 4 syllables: lu-mi-nou-sness. The stress falls on "mi".

What is another word for luminousness?

Close synonyms include luminosity, brightness, brightness level, luminance, 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 luminousness a common word?

luminousness 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.