translucence
(trɑːnsˈl(j)uːsəns, træns-, -nz-)
[f. as next: see -ence.]
1. The action or fact of shining through.
| 1826 Coleridge Two Founts 27 The soul's translucence thro' her crystal shrine! 1830 ― Lett., to Mrs. Gillman (1895) 754 What appeared to you a translucence of the love of the good, the true, and the beautiful from within me. 1868 Farrar Silence & V. i. (1875) 18 Nature, which is but the visible translucence of a divine agency working upon material things. 1875 Masson Wordsw., etc. 123 All the secrets of the earth's interior..are revealed in continuous translucence. |
2. Transparency to light:
= translucency.
| 1755 Johnson, Transparency, clearness; diaphaneity; translucence; power of transmitting light. 1847–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. IV. 246/2 The epithelium beyond is of excessive delicacy and translucence. 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 592 Having a wax-like translucence. |
| fig. 1859 I. Taylor Logic in Theol. 271, I admire the translucence of his character, and its strength. |