0 the act of producing a bright light from a heated part:
Meteors and comets entering the earth's atmosphere compress the air and heat it to incandescence.
The association seeks to reduce light pollution, the incandescence caused by outdoor night lighting.
Floodlighted, the white marble gleamed with a snowy incandescence.
Glass cases of memorabilia glowed with an otherworldly incandescence.
1 a very extreme emotion, especially anger or happiness:
The animals hunt at night when steam plumes from power plants streak the sky with phosphorous incandescence.
She was a phenomenon of impossible incandescence.
He met Ginsberg and formed the core of the Beats, whose incandescence lit up the skies.
Her performance is pure, kinetic incandescence.
The incandescence of his characters was a reflection of his own internal fire.
