BRIGHTNESS CONSTANCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brightness constancy mean? 

• BRIGHTNESS CONSTANCY (noun)
  The noun BRIGHTNESS CONSTANCY has 1 sense:

1. the tendency for a visual object to be perceived as having the same brightness under widely different conditions of illumination

  Familiarity information: BRIGHTNESS CONSTANCY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRIGHTNESS CONSTANCY (noun)

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Meaning:

The tendency for a visual object to be perceived as having the same brightness under widely different conditions of illumination

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("brightness constancy" is a kind of...):

constancy; perceptual constancy ((psychology) the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the conditions of observation)