luminescence
noun/ˌluːmɪˈnesns/
/ˌluːmɪˈnesns/
[uncountable] (specialist or literary)- a quality in something that produces lightWord Originlate 19th cent.: from Latin lumen, lumin- ‘light’ + -escence (denoting a state).
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