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Iridescent vs Lucent - What's the difference?

iridescent | lucent |

As adjectives the difference between iridescent and lucent

is that iridescent is (not comparable) producing a display of lustrous, rainbow-like colors; prismatic while lucent is emitting light; shining, luminous.

iridescent

English

(iridescence)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (not comparable) Producing a display of lustrous, rainbow-like colors; prismatic.
  • Brilliant, lustrous, or colorful.

    • Derived terms

    * iridesce * iridescence * iridescently

    Anagrams

    * English words suffixed with -escent ----

    lucent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Emitting light; shining, luminous.
  • Translucent; clear, lucid.
  • *1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, pp. 9-10:
  • *:her dilated eyes fixed with a horror-stricken fascination upon the pygmy burial-ground, in that broad, lucent expanse of the yellow moonlight which was still streaming through the illuminated gorge of the mountains into an otherwise dusky world.

    • Derived terms

    * lucently

    Related terms

    * lucence * lucency * luculent ----