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OPALESCENCE

Dictionary entry overview: What does opalescence mean?

• OPALESCENCE (noun)
The noun OPALESCENCE has 1 sense:

1. the visual property of something having a milky brightness and a play of colors from the surface

Familiarity information: OPALESCENCE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• OPALESCENCE (noun)

Sense 1

opalescence ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

The visual property of something having a milky brightness and a play of colors from the surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

iridescence; opalescence

Hypernyms ("opalescence" is a kind of...):

brightness (the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white)

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