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# The Good Oil Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-good-oil-word-of-the-day-73/
- Published: 2024-10-07T17:15:23.000Z
- Updated: 2024-10-07T17:15:22.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, Word of the Day

The word for today is…

incandescent (adjective): 

1a: white, glowing, or luminous with intense heat

b: strikingly bright, radiant, or clear

c: marked by brilliance especially of expression

d: characterized by glowing zeal : ardent

2a: of, relating to, or being light produced by incandescence

b: producing light by incandescence

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incandescent?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Incandescent first lit up the English language toward the end of the 18th century, at a time when scientific experiments involving heat and light were being conducted on an increasingly frequent basis. An object that glowed at a high temperature (such as a piece of coal) was incandescent. By the mid-1800s, the incandescent lamp—aka the lightbulb—had been invented; it contains a filament which gives off light when heated by an electric current. Incandescent is the modern offspring of a much older parent, the Latin verb candēre, meaning "to glow." Centuries earlier, the word for another source of light, candle, was also derived from candēre.

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