[ˌɪnkanˈdɛsnt], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- emitting light as a result of being heated
(e.g: plumes of incandescent liquid rock)

- full of strong emotion; passionate
(e.g: she felt an incandescent love for life)


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Origin:
late 18th century: from French, from Latin incandescent- ‘glowing’, from the verb incandescere, from in- (expressing intensive force) + candescere ‘become white’ (from candidus ‘white’)