Synonyms:
luster, lustre, brilliancy, splendor, splendour
Meaning: a quality that outshines the usual
Synonyms:
magnificence, brilliance, splendor, splendour, grandeur, grandness
Meaning: the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand; "for magnificence and personal service there is the Queen's hotel"; "his `Hamlet' lacks the brilliance that one expects"; "it is the university that gives the scene its stately splendor"; "an imaginative mix of old-fashioned grandeur and colorful art"; "advertisers capitalize on the grandness and elegance it brings to their products"
Usage examples
The splendor was within.
Displayed enormous power and splendor
Stung by the splendor of the prospect
Surrounded by so much splendor, the Marionette hardly knew what he was doing.
They are overwhelmed with splendor of all that is immaculate and inaccessible.
He saw before him a garden of such splendor and magnificence as he had never dreamed of even in his wildest fancy.
They share the rank and splendor of the families from which they are sprung, and are even allowed the supreme authority.
This exhibition occurred in Central New York, a latitude in which the Aurora Borealis is seldom seen with so much splendor.
He looked up; the stars were gone; the light was dropping as from a window in the sky; as he looked, it became a splendor; then, in terror, he cried,
She was the favorite child of her mother as well as of her father, and the ceremonies for the day of consecration were arranged with especial splendor.