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• n  light not due to incandescence; occurs at low temperatures
• n  light from nonthermal sources

• The darkness was complete except for the faint luminescence of something in a tube which she held in her hand.
• Unabashedly tonal, although hardly reactionary, the score glows with a luminescence too long absent from modern opera, and especially opera in English; for an equal, one must go .
• When most narcotics had stopped bacterial luminescence, compression of the solution restored the glow.

• glow

News & Articles

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• Flickers of Light in the Summer Night
  Fireflies’ luminescence is 100% efficient Michelle Steel Tiny golden-yellow lights flicker on, off, on, off.     Watching them brings memories of childhood.     Back in the days when I’d play outside from summer sun-up to after sundown, fireflies kept me company at night.     Reading kept me company, too.     P.D. Eastman’s Sam and the Firefly was a favorite. read more
  June 27, 2013 - Bay Weekly

Quotes

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• Simon Schama in Times Online
  I came away feeling envious of the power that Schama said this art had: it was propaganda for bloody revolutionaries, magic for popes or "marinating the meat of existence in a rinse of luminescence".