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diaphanous🔊

Transparent or translucent; allowing light to pass through; capable of being seen through.

💬 Quotations
The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marsh was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds.

Of a fine, almost transparent, texture; gossamer; light and insubstantial.

📑 Synonyms: delicate insubstantial sheer

(physics) Isorefractive, having an identical refractive index.