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brightness

brightness Brightness can mean either the strength of a visual experience, including color or color plus lightness, or more narrowly the achromatic aspect of vision running from black through grey to white.

Brightness can mean either the strength of a visual experience, including color or color plus lightness, or more narrowly the achromatic aspect of vision running from black through grey to white. In this narrower sense, it refers to the colorless lightness quality of a visual sensation rather than color itself.

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Drafting source: Baldwin Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, 1901. 1901 New York Macmillan original; archive index checked 2026-10-18. “Brightness” (Brightness).
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