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synonyms for incandescence

  • blaze
  • bonfire
  • heat
  • inferno
  • campfire
  • coals
  • combustion
  • conflagration
  • devouring
  • element
  • embers
  • flames
  • flare
  • glow
  • hearth
  • holocaust
  • luminosity
  • oxidation
  • phlogiston
  • pyre
  • scintillation
  • scorching
  • searing
  • sparks
  • tinder
  • warmth
  • flame and smoke
  • hot spot
  • rapid oxidation
  • sea of flames
  • up in smoke
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On this page you'll find 333 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to incandescence, such as: blaze, bonfire, heat, inferno, campfire, and null.
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How to use incandescence in a sentence

I pick up whatever thing a dream washes onto my shoreline and turn it over to look, hoping for the shimmery incandescence of pearl shell and fearing, instead, the exposure of a writhing, unspeakable underside—an impulse unmentionable.
THE WHALE WHO WILL COME SOON - ISSUE 105: WHALE SONGSREBECCA GIGGSSEPTEMBER 8, 2021NAUTILUS
It was first produced by heating with the current to incandescence a fine platinum wire.
STEAM STEEL AND ELECTRICITYJAMES W. STEELE
The phenomenon of incandescence without oxygen seems peculiar to these lights alone.
STEAM STEEL AND ELECTRICITYJAMES W. STEELE
Small wonder that the meteor is brought to lively incandescence and consumed even in a fraction of a second.
A TEXT-BOOK OF ASTRONOMYGEORGE C. COMSTOCK
Once a Beowulfer vanished in a supernova flash, and when the ball of incandescence widened to nothing the ship was gone.
SPACE VIKINGHENRY BEAM PIPER
There were momentarily unbearable flashes of pure energy and from them globes of incandescence spread and vanished.
SPACE VIKINGHENRY BEAM PIPER
Rocks beneath it flashed into sudden incandescence, splintered and cracked, flowed in molten streams.
ASTOUNDING STORIES, APRIL, 1931VARIOUS
I cannot express their vague, yet vast and intense splendor, by any other word than incandescence.
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, VOLUME 14, NO. 86, DECEMBER, 1864VARIOUS
The usual method is to heat some material to incandescence by passing an electric current through it.
THE NEW GRESHAM ENCYCLOPEDIAVARIOUS
It was exactly as though her fury, a generated incandescence of rage, had burned into a perceptible flare.
CYTHEREAJOSEPH HERGESHEIMER
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO INCANDESCENCE

  • blaze
  • bonfire
  • campfire
  • coals
  • combustion
  • conflagration
  • devouring
  • element
  • embers
  • flame and smoke
  • flames
  • flare
  • glow
  • hearth
  • heat
  • holocaust
  • hot spot
  • incandescence
  • inferno
  • luminosity
  • oxidation
  • phlogiston
  • pyre
  • rapid oxidation
  • scintillation
  • scorching
  • sea of flames
  • searing
  • sparks
  • tinder
  • up in smoke
  • warmth
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.