self-luminous
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.24 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
6
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Light-emitting.
adj
Having a luminosity exceeding 100%.
adj
Self-illuminating; knowable only as its unambiguous self; self-evident.
Example Sentences
- "It has been a question whether comets are self-luminous, or whether they simply reflect the solar light."
- "The structure of the light organs and the observation of luminous phenomena of self-luminous fish have been investigated by Ohshima ( 1911 ) ."
- "In 1915 von Sochocky developed a formula for a self-luminous paint."
- "How the few such that have lived in the world stand out, self-luminous, amidst the darkness of the past, surrounded by the wreck of names remembered only for their crimes, and pointing to the admiring gaze of men the true path to glory's temple!"
- "Very few have been born on earth who were self-luminous, whose light was not a borrowed light, who stood fully revealed in their own radiance of truth."
- "On the whole, it is a good company of self-luminous men—fit to flash great beams of light from the academic Watch towers of agricultural progress."
Etymology
Usage
Inflected Forms
more self-luminous (comparative)
most self-luminous (superlative)