Why this word is great
DIAPHANOUSNESS — [Noun] The quality of being so fine, sheer, or delicate as to be transparent or translucent. From diaphanous (from Medieval Latin diaphanus, from Ancient Greek διαφανής (diaphanḗs, "transparent"), from διά (diá, "through") + φαίνειν (phaínein, "to show, to shine")) + the English suffix -ness (forming abstract nouns denoting a state or quality). Unlike transparency, which implies the hard, unequivocal clarity of glass, or opacity, its absolute, light-negating opposite, diaphanousness is a state of subtle mediation and veiled disclosure. It is the milk-light of dawn through a bedroom curtain, the ghost of a wristbone beneath the skin, and a moth’s wing becoming a stained-glass window against a lamp—a testament that the most poignant truths are often those barely glimpsed, not those starkly revealed.