IRIDESCENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does iridescence mean? 

• IRIDESCENCE (noun)
  The noun IRIDESCENCE has 1 sense:

1. the visual property of something having a milky brightness and a play of colors from the surface

  Familiarity information: IRIDESCENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IRIDESCENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The visual property of something having a milky brightness and a play of colors from the surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

iridescence; opalescence

Hypernyms ("iridescence" is a kind of...):

brightness (the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white)

Derivation:

iridesce (be iridescent)

iridescent (having a play of lustrous rainbow colors)

iridescent (varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles)

 Context examples 

We now stood amazed at the sight, for their blotched and warty skins were of a curious fish-like iridescence, and the sunlight struck them with an ever-varying rainbow bloom as they moved.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)