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brightnes

brightnes is the obsolete spelling of brightness.

Meaning of brightness

Noun

brightness (usually uncountable, plural brightnesses)

  1. (usually) The quality of being bright.
    • Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen...1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
  2. (usually) The perceived luminance of an object.
  3. (figuratively, idiomatic, usually) Intelligence, cleverness.

Questions about brightnes

What is brightnes the obsolete spelling of?
Brightnes is the obsolete spelling of brightness.

Words near brightnes in the dictionary

  1. Brightling
  2. Brightlingsea
  3. brightly
  4. Brightman
  5. Brightmans
  6. brightnes
  7. brightness
  8. brightnesse
  9. brightnesses
  10. Brighton
  11. Brighton and Hove

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