The word "luminousness" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe the quality of something that is bright and glowing. Example sentence: The luminousness of the stars in the night sky was breathtaking.
Harvey's book is propelled not by the usual structures of novel writing but by the quality of its author's mind, by the luminousness of her prose, and by an ardent innocence of speculation that is rare in contemporary fiction.
"There's this luminousness to Julia," Ms. Gilbert said.
The characters in the play speak with evident feeling of the "luminousness" they cherish in the work of the great painters, but the spark of true art is absent from this proficient but ultimately pedestrian play.
Cleaned and its original luminousness restored, this austere image, a trompe l'oeil "tour de force," the blood seeming to trickle from Christ's feet down to the edge of the picture, is vibrant with reformist zeal.
A few pages later in the same essay, "Against Interpretation," she extols transparence in art (and criticism), writing that it "means experiencing the luminousness of the thing in itself, of things being what they are".
Paul Wilson Neymar had proved his luminousness yet again – discounting Portugal, perhaps no other country relies as heavily on its star – and even Fred, onside or not, was about to postpone a doubt or two.
The whole comedy is characterised by a special density of broken wit: atmospherically Shakespeare's most magnificent comedy before The Tempest, Measure for Measure's cloudy and knotted luminousness has nothing in common with the verse of previous comedies.
He seeks to assess mysticism's veracity not merely on account of its "luminousness".
Gunn remains interested only in pursing what Sontag calls "the luminousness of the thing in itself".
And if she tends to overexplain her metaphors, her energy and luminousness lend new vitality to an enduring cliché (2 00).Manhattan Theater Club, City Center, 131 West 55th Street, (212) 581-1212.
And if she tends to overexplain her metaphors, her energy and luminousness lend new vitality to an enduring cliché (2 00).
