Difference between translucency and translucentness
Definitions
noun
- the quality of allowing light to pass diffusely
Examples
Boucher's shepherdesses are not quite those manufactured in Nymphenburg and Meissen, although their complexions have something of the translucency of porcelain, whilst his herdsmen are streamlined terracotta.
It acts as an intermediate space between the natural world and the artificial, and its effects of light and shadow, transparency, translucency and even opacity alter constantly with weather, time and season.
The writer equated ‘its shell-like translucency [with] the finest old Chinese porcelain.’
