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
This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured.
Charles Francis Richter
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
My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude,' which is used for the brightness of a star.
Charles Francis Richter
Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.
Frances Rodman
The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.
James Gates Percival
Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness.
Jimmie Davis
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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