candescent

adjective

1. Glowing with heat; white-hot, incandescent.

   rare

   Tranquillity sudden, vast, candescent: form of forms.

Where it comes from

From Latin candēscēns, present participle of candēscō (“to brighten, radiate, become red hot”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry candescent (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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