lightness constancy

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lightness constancy [′lït·nəs ‚kän·stən·së]

(psychology)

The tendency to perceive little variation in the lightness of objects despite enormous differences in the amount of light falling upon them and in the amount of light reaching the eye from them (luminance).

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