incandescent

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   emitting light as a result of being heated

   An incandescent bulb.

2. 2
   adj

   characterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance

   An incandescent performance.

Borrowed from French incandescent, from Latin incandescens, from incandesco (“be heated, glow”), from in- (intensifying prefix) + candesco (“become white”), from candidus (“white”).

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