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BRIGHTNESS CONSTANCY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The tendency for a visual object to be perceived as having the same brightness under widely different conditions of illumination
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("brightness constancy" is a kind of...):
constancy; perceptual constancy ((psychology) the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the conditions of observation)