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shininess

noun

Etymology

From shiny + -ness.

  1. inherited from *skainijaną✻
  2. inherited from scǣnan — “to render brilliant, make shine”
  3. inherited from schenen
  4. derived from scīn — “brightness, shine”
  5. derived from schinen
  6. formed as shiny — “shine + -y”
  7. suffixed as shininess — “shiny + ness”

Definitions

  1. The visual property of something shining with reflective light

    The visual property of something shining with reflective light; shine.

  2. The coefficient of specular reflectivity associated with the surface of an object being…

    The coefficient of specular reflectivity associated with the surface of an object being displayed.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for shininess. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA