Word Meanings - BRILLIANCY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The quality of being brilliant; splendor; glitter; great brighness, whether in a literal or figurative sense. With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought. Longfellow.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BRILLIANCY)
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- LUSTRE
See LUSTER - SPLENDOR
1. Great brightness; brilliant luster; brilliancy; as, the splendor ot the sun. B. Jonson. 2. Magnifience; pomp; parade; as, the splendor of equipage, ceremonies, processions, and the like. "Rejoice in splendor of mine own." Shak. 3. Brilliancy; - BRILLIANCY
The quality of being brilliant; splendor; glitter; great brighness, whether in a literal or figurative sense. With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought. Longfellow. - GLARE
1. To shine with a bright, dazzling light. The cavern glares with new-admitted light. Dryden. 2. To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely. And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon. Byron. 3. To be bright and - LUMINOSITY
The quality or state of being luminous; luminousness. - GLAREOUS
Glairy. John Georgy . - BRIGHTNESS
1. The quality or state of being bright; splendor; luster; brilliancy; clearness. A sudden brightness in his face appear. Crabbe. 2. Acuteness ; sharpness 9wit. The brightness of his parts . . . distinguished him. Prior. Syn. -- Splendor; luster; - RADIANCE; RADIANCY
The quality of being radiant; brilliancy; effulgence; vivid brightness; as, the radiance of the sun. Girt with omnipotence, with radiance crowned. Milton. What radiancy of glory, What light beyond compare ! Neale. Syn. -- Luster; brilliancy; - EFFULGENCE
The state of being effulgent; extreme brilliancy; a flood of light; great luster or brightness; splendor. The effulgence of his glory abides. Milton. The bright and the balmy effulgence of morn. Beattie. - BRILLIANCE
Brilliancy. Tennyson. - LACKLUSTER; LACKLUSTRE
A want of luster. -- a. - IRRADIANCE; IRRADIANCY
1. The act of irradiating; emission of rays of light. 2. That which irradiates or is irradiated; luster; splendor; irradiation; brilliancy. Milton. - OUTLUSTER; OUTLUSTRE
To excel in brightness or luster. Shak. - LUSTERLESS; LUSTRELESS
Destitute of luster; dim; dull. - BURGLARER
A burglar. - SPLENDROUS; SPLENDOROUS
Splendid. Drayton. - APLUSTRE
An ornamental appendage of wood at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather. Audsley. - LUSTER; LUSTRE
A period of five years; a lustrum. Both of us have closed the tenth luster. Bolingbroke.