Incandescent: adj. (word from the Latin incandescens, present participle: from incandescere “to be on fire”).
White or bright red heated; made luminous by intense heat (fiery, igneous, luminous).
Charcoal, glowing metal.
The flames are incandescent gases.
Figurative meaning: An incandescent imagination.
Quote from the French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867): He did not need “to activate the fire of his imagination, always incandescent”.
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