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Lucid vs Radiant - What's the difference?

lucid | radiant |

As adjectives the difference between lucid and radiant

is that lucid is clear; easily understood while radiant is radiating light and/or heat.

As nouns the difference between lucid and radiant

is that lucid is a lucid dream while radiant is a point source from which radiation is emitted.

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)

    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

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    radiant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Radiating light and/or heat.
  • :
  • Emitted as radiation.
  • Beaming with vivacity and happiness.
  • :
  • *
  • *:His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ “Phil?!  You?!   Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow?!” recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.
  • Emitting or proceeding as if from a center.
  • (lb) Giving off rays; said of a bearing.
  • :
  • (lb) Having a ray-like appearance, like the large marginal flowers of certain umbelliferous plants; said also of the cluster which has such marginal flowers.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A point source from which radiation is emitted.
  • (astronomy) The apparent origin, in the night sky, of a meteor shower.
  • A straight line proceeding from a given point, or fixed pole, about which it is conceived to revolve.
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