candescent
adjEtymology From Latin candēscēns, present participle of candēscō (“to brighten, radiate, become red hot”).
1
glowing with heat; white-hot, incandescent.
- By then the sky is lightening, sun candescent at the hill of her shoulder.2023, C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 118:
- Related terms
- candescence