REFULGENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does refulgency mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• REFULGENCY (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 ("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)