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candescent
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective candescent has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
candescent, a. [L. candescens, -entis, p. pr. of candescere, v. incho. fr. candere to shine.].
Glowing; luminous; incandescent. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
candescent, adj. glowing with or as with white heat.
Derivative
candescence n.
Etymology
L candere be white
THESAURUS
candescent
ablaze, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, ardent, beaming, beamy, blazing, blushing, bright and sunny, burning, candent, comburent, conflagrant, flagrant, flaming, flaring, flickering, flushing, fuming, gleaming, gleamy, glinting, glowing, guttering, ignescent, ignited, illuminant, in a blaze, in a glow, in flames, incandescent, inflamed, irradiative, kindled, lamping, light as day, live, living, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative, luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lustrous, on fire, orient, radiant, reeking, rutilant, rutilous, scintillant, scintillating, shining, shiny, smoking, smoldering, sparking, starbright, starlike, starry, streaming, suffused, sunny, sunshiny, unextinguished, unquenched
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