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effulgence

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ef·ful·gence  (-fljns, -fl-)
n.
A brilliant radiance.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.effulgenceeffulgence - the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light
radiancy, refulgence, refulgency, shine, radiance
brightness - the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white
gleam, lambency, gleaming, glow - an appearance of reflected light
sheen, shininess, luster, lustre - the visual property of something that shines with reflected light
burnish, glossiness, polish, gloss - the property of being smooth and shiny


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By and by a delicate, spiritual sort of effulgence spread itself by imperceptible degrees over the loftiest altitudes of the snowy wastes--but there the effort seemed to stop.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
The sun, darting his last rays beneath the masses of heaped-up cloud, adorned with a crest of gold the slightest inequalities of the ground below; gigantic trees, arborescent bushes, mosses on the even surface--all had their share of this luminous effulgence.
Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules View in context
It is another sun--an entirely different sun--that casts its eternal noonday effulgence upon the face of the inner world.
At the Earth's Core by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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