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Is there a word that means light and dark?
Weird question but what I mean is, is there a word that “means or denotes” light and dark, if that makes sense?
Like how the word color can mean or denote red and blue or how temperature can mean hot and cold?
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Brightness, luminosity or albedo.
Chiaroscuro means "both light and dark," as in a high-contrast picture.
But you may be thinking of brightness, lightness, tint, shade, luminance, or luminosity.
Thank you!
I was thinking words like brightness and luminance but wasn’t sure if they mean both light and dark or denote the amount of light within something or given off by something?
Blanc means white in french and it came from another word in, I don't know what language, that meant either dark or light because of the nature of combustion. When something combusts it is bright, and when it's out it's black from the flame.. Other modern languages have interpreted and translated that word to mean either light or dark or black or white because of how ambiguous the word was.
Brightness.
Shade.
Dim? Dim light. Dim down the lights.
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