incandescently

With white-hot brilliance

Incandescently means with intense heat or light, like something glowing white-hot.

More often figurative: brilliant or passionate to an extreme degree.

She was incandescently happy on her wedding day.

He stared at her, incandescently angry.

The word suggests emotion so intense it seems to radiate outward.

luminous

glowing

Giving off steady light

luminous · effulgent · resplendent · gleaming · shimmering · blazing · ablaze · white-hot · fiery · lambent

passionate

fiercely

With intense aggression

vehemently · zealously · impassionedly · furiously · overwhelmingly · ragingly · explosively · wildly · ecstatically · rapturously

Opposites
light intensity

incandescentlydimly

With weak illumination

darkly · dully · faintly · obscurely · gloomily

emotional intensity

incandescentlycoldly

Without emotional warmth

dispassionately · coolly · dully · flatly · apathetically

Phrases
Family

incandescent, incandescents

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