radiance

Other forms of radiance

plural

radiances·

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 radiance

What does radiance mean?

radiance means "the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in radiance?

radiance has 3 syllables: ra-di-ance. The stress falls on "ra". In IPA it is /ˈɹeɪˌdiəns/.

What is another word for radiance?

Close synonyms include glow, glowing, radiancy, shine, effulgence. 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 radiance a common word?

radiance is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.