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)

• Effulgence
• Splendor
• lustre
• brilliancy
• luminosity
• Radiance
• Brightness
• splendor
• brilliance
• effulgence
• glare

Related words: (words related to BRILLIANCY)

• 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.