Glowing or shining with heat; incandescent; white-hot or luminous.
From Latin candent-, present participle of candere (to shine, glow). The word appears in English as a literary and technical term for things that glow from extreme heat.
A candent coal in a fireplace, a candent metal in a forge—this word captures that moment when something becomes so hot it actually glows—and it's rarer and more evocative than simply saying 'hot.'
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