translucence

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Middle English translucence, from Medieval Latin trānslūcentia.

He leaned over it, and thrice waywardly dipped his hand in the clear translucence. — Complete Short Works of George Meredith, George Meredith
How express Nature, its translucence and mysterious unities, its mood never the same from hour to hour! — Tatterdemalion, John Galsworthy
To him the visible world was a veil worn thin by the pressure of the reality behind it; it had the translucence that belongs to it in the form of its eternity. — The Creators: A Comedy, May Sinclair

translucency, semitransparency

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