Adjective : the luminous ballroom. ,a luminous concept; luminous prose. ,a concise, luminous report.    From Dictionary.com. 

He seeks to assess mysticism's veracity not merely on account of its "luminousness".    From Wordnik.com.  [William James, part 6: Mystical states] Reference

On their luminousness depended their power to influence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 07, July, 1889] Reference

There was some of the uncanny luminousness of the sunlit sea in the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prussian Officer and Other Stories] Reference

Her copper eyes had taken on a luminousness that was visible in the dark.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference

If he can secure any suggestion of the subtilty and luminousness, -- if he can!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference

More than ever her whiteness shone in the gloom with the luminousness of a pearl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference

A few stars had the brilliance to pierce that luminousness, down by the rugged horizon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unicorn Trade]

The pallor of his countenance had assumed, if possible, a more ghastly hue -- but the luminousness of his eye had utterly gone out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selections from Poe] Reference

— The sea from its extreme luminousness presented a wonderful & most beautiful appearance; every part of the water, which by day is seen as foam, glowed with a pale light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwin's bioluminescence.] Reference

Her resolution shed a certain luminousness over Dora's soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl at Cobhurst] Reference

The luminousness gone from her face, there were cruel revelations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lifted Masks; stories] Reference

And its blueness, even in the vial, held an intensity of luminousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moon Pool] Reference

We next take up the point as to the self-luminousness of consciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48] Reference

An atmosphere of magical luminousness permeated the entire field of view.    From Wordnik.com.  [Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Mystic-Humorous Stories] Reference

Everywhere, in fact, the texts attribute supreme luminousness to Brahman only.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48] Reference

Under the luminousness of real vision, it alone takes possession, takes value.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography] Reference

Lucetta had a heightened luminousness in her eye over and above the advanced colour of her cheeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mayor of Casterbridge] Reference

He placed it in the thin streak of daylight, and its luminousness was almost immediately restored.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Space and Time] Reference

And his face had a dark luminousness, like a dark transparence which was shut and has now expanded.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Girl] Reference

With this Dora sat down, and left the bit of moon to shed what luminousness it could over the landscape.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl at Cobhurst] Reference

She seemed to see a fairness, a luminousness in the northern soul, something free, touched with divinity such as.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Girl] Reference

These are windows out of which shine a vivid green luminousness, which appears to fill the interior of the chest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

The air may be full of luminousness, but as yet it has found no point on which to kindle and from which to irradiate.    From Wordnik.com.  [John the Baptist] Reference

Immediate luminousness, in short, philosophical reasonableness, and moral helpfulness are the only available criteria.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Varieties of Religious Experience] Reference

That such is the essential nature of consciousness you yourself admit; for you have proved thereby its self-luminousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48] Reference

Its colours were feeble; but, contrasted with the black ground against which it rested, its luminousness was extraordinary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference

Her dominant aspect, of clear luminousness, was somehow dimmed and mystified, with all other lights, in this blurred afternoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lee Shore] Reference

"Imagination," "the shaping gift of imagination," is this power of first presenting a thing to your own brain with luminousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Platform Monologues] Reference

The pallor of his countenance had assumed, if possible, a more ghastly hue-but the luminousness of his eye had utterly gone out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comments for BrightestYoungThings] Reference

As the light was turned on the luminousness disappeared, and we beheld a beautiful young lady clothed in a dazzling white costume.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life] Reference

It was wafted to them through the window that Elsa and Lohengrin threw wide open on a night vibrating with sound and luminousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Femmes d'artistes. English] Reference

The pallor of his countenance had assumed, if possible, a more ghastly hue — but the luminousness of his eye had utterly gone out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. I] Reference

As a matter of course, when any light was made the luminousness of the robe was drowned, and she appeared in simply a white costume.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life] Reference

Granted whatever you choose to ask, concerning its material, or its aspect, its loftiness and luminousness, -- how of its limitation?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century Two Lectures delivered at the London Institution February 4th and 11th, 1884] Reference

Silence fell, and then a deep bass voice said, "I am coming, Amadeo!" and out of the middle of the table appeared a faint luminousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queen Lucia] Reference

There was a luminousness in it -- a calm but piercing character, which seemed to partake more of the nature of spirit than of humanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey] Reference

"Philomela unites the sensibilities and intellectual experience of modern Englishmen with the luminousness and simplicity of Greek poetry.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems] Reference