EFFULGENCE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The quality of being bright and sending out rays of light

Synonyms:

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("effulgence" is a kind of...):

brightness (the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "effulgence"):

gleam; gleaming; glow; lambency (an appearance of reflected light)

luster; lustre; sheen; shininess (the visual property of something that shines with reflected light)

burnish; gloss; glossiness; polish (the property of being smooth and shiny)

Derivation:

effulgent (radiating or as if radiating light)