Lighting is the lamps in a place and the effect they give. Stage lighting, poor lighting, lighting design.
In theatre and film it is a whole craft, since lighting decides what the audience looks at and how they feel about it. In buildings, bad lighting is one of the commonest causes of accidents and of headaches.
1nounlightingThe lamps in a place and the effect they give.
“The restaurant has soft lighting and candles on every table.”
lighting is an illumination.
Proto-Indo-European
*lewk-
Middle English
light
English
light
English, today
lighting
Built from
From light + -ing. light comes from Middle English light. From Middle English light, liht, leoht, from Old English lēoht, from Proto-West Germanic leuht, from Proto-Germanic leuhtą, from Proto-Indo-European lewktom, from the root lewk- (“to shine”). 2
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA