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In the manner glowing or white with heat; In an intensely bright manner; In a brilliant and masterly manner.

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  • Adjective : an incandescent masterpiece; incandescent wit. ,the incandescent vitality of youth
  • He's a guy that people describe as incandescently brilliant, but he's also a guy who is radically different than he at times portrayed himself.
  • She stood, her scaled skin glowing incandescently in the darkness.
  • They show incandescently hot steel, not molten steel — there is a difference.
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