Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The power of transmitting light; transparency; diaphanousness; pellucidness.
Wiktionary
- n. transparency
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality of being diaphanous; transparency; pellucidness.
Examples
“-- In transmitted light we have, as stated above, single or double refraction, polarisation, and diaphaneity.”
“I believe (he continues) that 'consciousness,' when once it has evaporated to this estate of pure diaphaneity, is on the point of disappearing altogether.”
“It is neither young nor old, the Face: it has a vapoury indefinableness that leaves it a riddle; -- its diaphaneity reveals no particular tint; -- perhaps you may not even be quite sure whether it has a beard.”
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“Then, with characteristic frankness, my young lady shakes out before me things all frills, embroidery, ribbons, diaphaneity, which the ordinary man only examines through shop-front windows when a philosophic mood induces him to speculate on the unfathomable vanity of woman.”
“What had been leanness in her youth had become transparency in her maturity; and this diaphaneity allowed the angel to be seen.”
“The diaphaneity of Babet contrasted with the grossness of Gueulemer.”
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Minerals and Mineralogy
List of minerals, elements, group names and geochemistry terms encountered in the science of mineralogy. I've chosen to avoid capital letters in most examples, though a great many mineral names hon...
galkhaite, xanthoconite, pyrostilpnite, polybasite, pyrargyrite, djurleite, digenite, covellite, chalcocite, cerargirite, acanthite, aeschynite and 2536 more...
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