BRIGHTNESS Copy link • BRIGHTNESSclaritas (general term): splendor, nitor (splendor denotes pomp, nitor onlv neatness, simple beauty): candor (of the sky, sun, etc.): fulgor (fiery brightness; e.g., of a comet). The fiery brightness of the comet had overcome the milder brightness of the sun, stella cometes fulgore suo solis nitorem vicerat. The brightness (clearness) of the sky, weather, serenitas, serenum. Virtue has a brightness of her own, virtus splendet per se. To lose brightness (of a thing), obsolescere. Brightness of intellect, acies mentis, ingenii; ingenii acumen. The brightness of glory, fulgor gloriae. Transparency, pelluciditas.