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Meanings of translucence in English

Catalan
diafanitat

The quality of allowing light to pass diffusely.

diafanitat
Usage of translucence in English
1
While she watched, individual blades altered, rotated, disappeared or changed translucence.
Night of Knives
2
There was a gray translucence to the night as dawn approached.
Carrion comfort
3
A translucence blanketed everything, obliterating the names of boutiques and bistros.
Death du Jour
4
Their skin has a particular translucence, like a layer of nacre.
The apocalypse reader
5
Finally, the translucence revealed the smooth globe of the dungeon's interior.
The black prism
6
There was that intense beauty, that shadowlessness that was like translucence.
The Inheritors
7
Bethany sighed, her years showing in the near translucence of her pale skin.
Songs of love and death: all-original tales of star-crossed love
8
The single-pane screen went from translucence to blank white... then a menu appeared.
Zero Point
9
He leaned over it, and thrice waywardly dipped his hand in the clear translucence.
Farina
10
Into the inner fields came translucence, gold light; came and faded, but left strength.
1492
11
Around the perimeter of that once-invisible field, a flicker of polarization thickened to translucence.
Cities in Flight
12
Third, the face I'd created superimposed in ghostly translucence over bone and tissue markers.
Death du Jour
13
In the photo they had some translucence that indicated they might have been brown or hazel.
Nocturnal
14
The woman's muscles were withered, her hair gray, her skin pale to the point of translucence.
Monday Mourning
15
Fry on one side until golden brown on the bottom and showing translucence at the edges.
Radio NZ
16
The flames cast the whole camp into a pulsing translucence, light gathering and dispersing like brightened shadows.
Serena
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Translucence through the time