Self-luminous

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Light-emitting..

Definitions by Sense

1. Light-emitting.
2. (color theory, of a perceived color) Having a luminosity exceeding 100%.
3. (figurative) Prominent or famous for virtue or greatness.
4. (philosophy) Self-illuminating; knowable only as its unambiguous self; self-evident.

Example Sentences

It has been a question whether comets are self-luminous, or whether they simply reflect the solar light.

The structure of the light organs and the observation of luminous phenomena of self-luminous fish have been investigated by Ohshima ( 1911 ) .

In 1915 von Sochocky developed a formula for a self-luminous paint.

How the few such that have lived in the world stand out, self-luminous, amidst the darkness of the past, surrounded by the wreck of names remembered only for their crimes, and pointing to the admiring gaze of men the true path to glory's temple!

Very few have been born on earth who were self-luminous, whose light was not a borrowed light, who stood fully revealed in their own radiance of truth.

On the whole, it is a good company of self-luminous men—fit to flash great beams of light from the academic Watch towers of agricultural progress.

The active sense of living which we all enjoy, before reflection shatters our instinctive world for us, is self-luminous and suggests no paradoxes.

But as difference is a positive condition of the reason, I cannot deduce it without presupposing it; I cannot explain it except by itself, because it is an original, self-luminous, self-attesting reality.

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• more self-luminous
• most self-luminous

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