lightscape

English

Etymology

light +‎ -scape

Noun

lightscape (plural lightscapes)

1. An illuminated environment; a lighting arrangement that picks out some details and obscures others.
   • 2000, Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, Theaters:

     The theater house can encourage the lighting designer to imagine extraordinary lightscapes or it can limit the placement of lights, resulting in constant frustration that is stimulating to no one.

   • 2006, United States, Management Policies 2006, National Park Service, page 57:

     The Service will preserve, to the greatest extent possible, the natural lightscapes of parks, which are natural resources and values that exist in the absence of human-caused light.

Anagrams

• spacelight