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brightness

noun bright·ness \ˈbrīt-nəs\

Medical Definition of BRIGHTNESS

:  the one of the three psychological dimensions of color perception by which visual stimuli are ordered continuously from light to dark and which is correlated with light intensity—compare hue, saturation 4a

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