Light, brightness.

Brightness; light; glow; (figurative) radiance, glory. Now chiefly archaic or literary.

In early use, a brilliant light (e.g. of the sun). In modern use, a subdued or transient appearance of light, emitted or reflected.

Brightness, light; the quality or fact of giving out light. Also: †a flash or moment of light (obsolete). Now rare.

The quality or fact of being bright; the giving out or reflecting of light (as by the sun, a fire, a bright object, etc.); shininess, radiance…

Brightness; brilliance, splendour. Chiefly figurative.

? Brightness. Obsolete. rare.

The quality of being luminous or well-lit; brightness; (formerly also) †clarity (obsolete).

Brightness or radiance shed by a luminary or an illuminant.

The quality of looking bright, or of being somewhat bright. Cf. brightsome, adj.

Luminosity, brilliancy, bright light; luminous splendour.

Clearness, brightness.

Brightness. Cf. resplendency, n.

Lucidity.

The quality or condition of being lucid; brightness, luminosity; now chiefly figurative intellectual clearness; transparency of thought or expression.

Brightness, beauty.