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REFULGENCY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being bright and sending out rays of light
Synonyms:
effulgence; radiance; radiancy; refulgence; refulgency; shine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("refulgency" 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 "refulgency"):
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:
refulgent (radiating or as if radiating light)
