iridescence

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪɹ.ɪˈdɛs.əns/
• Rhymes: -ɛsəns

iridescence (countable and uncountable, plural iridescences)

1. The condition or state of being iridescent; exhibition of colors like those of the rainbow; a prismatic play of color.
2. Any shimmer of glittering and changeable colors.

• iridescent
• iridescently
• iridesce

• luminescence
• fluorescence

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “iridescence”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “iridescence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.