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self-luminous

adj

Etymology

From self- + luminous.

  1. derived from lūminōsus
  2. borrowed from lumineus
  3. formed as self-luminous — “self- + luminous”

Definitions

  1. Light-emitting.

    • It has been a question whether comets are self-luminous, or whether they simply reflect the solar light.
    • The structure of the light organs and the observation of luminous phenomena of self-luminous fish have been investigated by Ohshima ( 1911 ) .
    • In 1915 von Sochocky developed a formula for a self-luminous paint.

  2. Having a luminosity exceeding 100%.

  3. Prominent or famous for virtue or greatness.

    • Very few have been born on earth who were self-luminous, whose light was not a borrowed light, who stood fully revealed in their own radiance of truth.
    • On the whole, it is a good company of self-luminous men—fit to flash great beams of light from the academic Watch towers of agricultural progress.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Self-illuminating

      Self-illuminating; knowable only as its unambiguous self; self-evident.

      • The active sense of living which we all enjoy, before reflection shatters our instinctive world for us, is self-luminous and suggests no paradoxes.
      • But as difference is a positive condition of the reason, I cannot deduce it without presupposing it; I cannot explain it except by itself, because it is an original, self-luminous, self-attesting reality.

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