radiancenoun [ U ]
uk/ˈreɪ.di.əns/us/ˈreɪ.di.əns/radiance noun [ U ] (HAPPINESS/BEAUTY)
happiness, beauty, or good health that you can see in someone's face:
He was struck by the radiance of her smile.
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Beauty and attractiveness
- attractive
- beauty
- chic
- crowning glory idiom
- dainty
- gorgeous
- grace
- graceful
- grandeur
- homely
- magnificent
- majesty
- nobility
- picturesque
- poetry
- splendour
- stately
- sublime
- sultry
- voluptuous
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radiance noun [ U ] (LIGHT/HEAT)
light or heat that comes from something:
We basked in the radiance of the African sun.
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Quantities & units of light
- aureole
- beam
- blip
- bright
- flash
- glare
- gleam
- glint
- halo
- lustre
- lux
- pencil
- pinprick
- point
- shaft
- sheen
- shine
- sparkle
- sunbeam
- twinkle
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