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Lucid vs Lucent - What's the difference?

lucid | lucent |

As adjectives the difference between lucid and lucent

is that lucid is clear; easily understood while lucent is emitting light; shining, luminous.

As a noun lucid

is a lucid dream.

lucid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • clear; easily understood
  • * '>citation
  • mentally rational; sane
  • bright, luminous, translucent or transparent

    • Synonyms

    * clear * coherent * fluent * pellucid * perspicuous * straightforward * see-through * transparent

    Derived terms

    * lucid dream * lucidity (noun) * lucidly (adverb)

    Related terms

    * elucidate

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A lucid dream.
  • * 1986 , Benjamin B. Wolman, Montague Ullman, Handbook of states of consciousness (page 163)
    • The day before nightmare-initiated lucids , subjects reported more depressed feelings

    Anagrams

    * ----

    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 ----