All 3 Uses of
luminous
in
1984, by Orwell
- It was a vast, luminous dream in which his whole life seemed to stretch out before him like a landscape on a summer evening after rain.†
p. 160.2 *
- The eyes grew larger and more luminous.†
p. 243.1
- But there had been a moment — he did not know how long, thirty seconds, perhaps — of luminous certainty, when each new suggestion of O'Brien's had filled up a patch of emptiness and become absolute truth, and when two and two could have been three as easily as five, if that were what was needed.†
p. 258.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(luminous) glowing or shining
(also used metaphorically to describe beauty or intelligence) -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, luminous can mean beautiful, inspiring, or beautifully clear and understandable.