Radiance vs Heyday - What's the difference?
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the quality of being radiant, shining, bright or splendid
(physics) the flux of radiation emitted per unit solid angle in a given direction by a unit area of a source
A period of success, popularity, or power; prime.
A lively greeting.
* 1798 :"Heyday, Miss Morland!" said he. "What is the meaning of this? I thought you and I were to dance together." Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey
(obsolete) An expression of frolic and exultation, and sometimes of wonder.
* 1600 :"Come follow me, my wags, and say, as I say. There's no riches but in rags; hey day, hey day, &c." Ben Jonson - Cynthia's Revels
As nouns the difference between radiance and heyday
is that radiance is the quality of being radiant, shining, bright or splendid while heyday is a period of success, popularity, or power; prime.As an interjection heyday is
a lively greeting.radiance
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(wikipedia radiance)- Girt with omnipotence, with radiance crowned. — Milton.
heyday
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(en noun)- The early twentieth century was the heyday of the steam locomotive.