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Lucent vs Luminescent - What's the difference?

lucent | luminescent |

As adjectives the difference between lucent and luminescent

is that lucent is emitting light; shining, luminous while luminescent is emitting light by luminescence.

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 ----

    luminescent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • emitting light by luminescence

    • Related terms

    * bioluminescent * luminesce ----