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Definition of Brightness
Brightness

The quality or state of being bright; splendor; luster; brilliancy; clearness.

Acuteness (of the faculties); sharpness 9wit.

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Brightness Quotations

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
Samuel Johnson

This dark brightness that falls from the stars.
Pierre Corneille

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.
Jane Porter

Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and color. And everybody is smiling and happy and butterflies flitting around and it was that kind of image that, it was like a dream world, really.
George Martin

For both reasons, owing to the thermal motion and to the working together of various wavelengths, factors arise which, in a similar manner to the structural factor, exert some influence upon the brightness of the interference points but not upon their location.
Max von Laue

Brightness Translations

brightness in German is Helligkeit
brightness in Italian is chiarezza
brightness in Latin is nitor, nitor
brightness in Spanish is brillo


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