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Definition of Luminous
Luminous

Shining; emitting or reflecting light; brilliant; bright; as, the is a luminous body; a luminous color.

Illuminated; full of light; bright; as, many candles made the room luminous.

Enlightened; intelligent; also, clear; intelligible; as, a luminous mind.

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Luminous Quotations

Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.
Victor Hugo

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
Virginia Woolf

Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
Friedrich Von Schlegel

It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.
Rebecca H. Davis

To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.
Jeanette Winterson

Luminous Translations

luminous in French is lumineux
luminous in German is leuchtend
luminous in Italian is fulgente, squillante
luminous in Norwegian is selvlysende
luminous in Spanish is luminoso


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