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