different between dazzle vs luminosity

English

Etymology

daze +? -le, a frequentative form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dæz?l/
• Rhymes: -æz?l

Verb

dazzle (third-person singular simple present dazzles, present participle dazzling, simple past and past participle dazzled)

1. (transitive) To confuse the sight of by means of excessive brightness.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance.

   Synonyms: impress, overpower

3. (intransitive) To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.

Derived terms

• bedazzle
• dazzler
• dazzlement
• endazzle
• endazzlement

Translations

Noun

dazzle (countable and uncountable, plural dazzles)

1. A light of dazzling brilliancy.
2. (figuratively) Showy brilliance that may stop a person from thinking clearly.
3. (uncommon) A herd of zebra.
   • 1958, Laurens Van der Post, The lost world of the Kalahari: with the great and the little memory (1998 David Coulson edition):

     We were trying to stalk a dazzle of zebra which flashed in and out of a long strip of green and yellow fever trees, with an ostrich, its feathers flared like a ballet skirt around its dancing legs, on their flank, when suddenly […]
4. (uncountable) Dazzle camouflage.

Synonyms

• (group of zebras): herd, zeal.

Translations

English

Noun

luminosity (plural luminosities)

1. (uncountable) the state of being luminous, or a luminous object; brilliance or radiance
2. (physics) the ratio of luminous flux to radiant flux at the same wavelength; the luminosity factor
3. (astronomy) the rate at which a star radiates energy in all directions

Derived terms

• high-luminosity
• low-luminosity

Translations

References

• luminosity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia