EFFULGENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does effulgence mean? 

• EFFULGENCE (noun)
  The noun EFFULGENCE has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light

  Familiarity information: EFFULGENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EFFULGENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being bright and sending out rays of light

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

effulgence; radiance; radiancy; refulgence; refulgency; shine

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)

 Context examples 

He was smiling to himself as he looked up into her virginal face, so innocent, so penetratingly innocent, that its purity seemed always to enter into him, driving out of him all dross and bathing him in some ethereal effulgence that was as cool and soft and velvety as starshine.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Enough then, that I not only recognised my natural body from the mere aura and effulgence of certain of the powers that made up my spirit, but managed to compound a drug by which these powers should be dethroned from their supremacy, and a second form and countenance substituted, none the less natural to me because they were the expression, and bore the stamp of lower elements in my soul.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)