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• n  the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised
• n  light from heat

• But Letterman's rage reached incandescence when a live feed from another CBS studio showed McCain, rather than on his way to the airport as he'd claimed, being made up for an .
• Although she was not blessed with Redgrave's white-hot, almost alarming incandescence that grand stature mixed with a girlish vulnerability Richardson had her own gifts.
• Her suburban incandescence is warm, not scalding.

• glow

News & Articles

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• Food Depot to benefit from portraits by Santa Fe artist
  In Robbi Firestone's portraits, an incandescence kindles beneath the skin, igniting the filament within. ...
  Aug. 7, 2013 - Albuquerque Journal

Quotes

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• Gordon Brown in International Herald Tribune
  One Brown ally explains that "there was incandescence in the Treasury when Blair settled on the EU budget in 2005 without sorting out the CAP."
• Simone de Beauvoir in guardian.co.uk
  He was the double in whom I found all my burning aspiration raised to a pitch of incandescence,De Beauvoir wrote.