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radiance

noun as in brightness, luminescence

noun as in happiness

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And not that after-sex glow, but the radiance of contentment.

In it, grim headlines and social problems give way to an improbable radiance.

But they do make the family seem a shade more like the rest of America, in all its messy, tacky, imperfect radiance.

Her beauty seems to telegraph an inner radiance of well-honed intelligence and gentle self-assurance.

They walked together to a recess in the garden, where they sat down under the full radiance of the unclouded moon.

She glanced up at him softly, under long lashes,—a thrilling glance; but he missed its radiance, for his own eyes were far away.

The clear and radiant sky was drowned in a quivering radiance of gold, that was like a thing alive and sensitively palpitating.

Ramona herself bore no impress of sorrow; rather her face had now an added radiance.

Every individual freckle on her thin, sharp face seemed to shine as though there was some radiance behind it.

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On this page you'll find 72 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to radiance, such as: brilliance, effulgence, glare, gleam, glitter, and glow.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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