different between lucency vs lucent

English

lucent +? -cy

lucency (usually uncountable, plural lucencies)

The quality of being lucent.
(medicine) A pale area revealed in radiography, computed tomography, or similar examination technique.

Borrowed from lucent-, the participle stem of Latin lucere (“to shine”).

lucent (comparative more lucent, superlative most lucent)

Emitting light; shining, luminous.
Translucent; clear, lucid.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, pp. 9-10:
  her dilated eyes fixed with a horror-stricken fascination upon the pygmy burial-ground, in that broad, lucent expanse of the yellow moonlight which was still streaming through the illuminated gorge of the mountains into an otherwise dusky world.

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