self-luminous

adjective5

1. •
   Light-emitting.

   • It has been a question whether comets are self-luminous, or whether they simply reflect the solar light. — 1882
2. •
   Self-illuminating; knowable only as its unambiguous self; self-evident.

   • The active sense of living which we all enjoy, before reflection shatters our instinctive world for us, is self-luminous and suggests no paradoxes. — 1909
3. •
   (India) Self-aware; knowable by itself.

   • The self is self-luminous and so it does not need another cognition to become known. — 2007
4. •
   (figurative) Prominent or famous for virtue or greatness.

   • Very few have been born on earth who were self-luminous, whose light was not a borrowed light, who stood fully revealed in their own radiance of truth. — 1892
5. •
   Having a luminosity exceeding 100%.