lightness, light - the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures; "he could paint the lightest light and the darkest dark"

brilliance, glare, blaze - great brightness; "a glare of sunlight"; "the flowers were a blaze of color"

dazzle - brightness enough to blind partially and temporarily

glisten, glister, glitter, sparkle, scintillation - the quality of glittering or sparkling brightly

flash - a momentary brightness

glint - a spatially localized brightness

iridescence, opalescence - the visual property of something having a milky brightness

radiancy, refulgence, refulgency, shine, effulgence, radiance - the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light

brilliancy, luster, splendor, splendour, lustre - a quality that outshines the usual

intelligence - the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience

physical property - a property used to characterize physical objects

illuminance, illumination - the luminous flux incident on a unit area

incandescence - light from heat

glow, luminescence - light from nonthermal sources