A quality that outshines the usual.

synoniemen: luster, lustre, splendor, splendour.

Roget 420: light, ray, beam, stream, gleam, streak, pencil; sunbeam, moonbeam; aurora.    day; sunshine; light of day, light of heaven; moonlight, starlight, sunlight etc. (luminary) 432; daylight, broad daylight, noontide light; noontide, noonday, noonday sun.    glow etc. v.; glimmering etc. v.; glint; play of light, flood of light; phosphorescence, lambent flame.    flush, halo, glory, nimbus, aureola.    spark, scintilla; facula; sparkling etc. v.; emication^†, scintillation, flash, blaze, coruscation, fulguration^†; flame etc. (fire) 382; lightning, levin^†, ignis fatuus [Lat.], etc. (luminary) 423.    luster, sheen, shimmer, reflexion [Brit.], reflection; gloss, tinsel, spangle, brightness, brilliancy, splendor; effulgence, refulgence; fulgor^†, fulgidity^†; dazzlement^†, resplendence, transplendency^†; luminousness etc. adj.; luminosity; lucidity; renitency^†, nitency^†; radiance, radiation; irradiation, illumination.    actinic rays, actinism; Roentgen-ray, Xray; photography, heliography; photometer etc. 445.    [Science of light] optics; photology^†, photometry; dioptrics^†, catoptrics^†.    [Distribution of light] chiaroscuro, clairobscur^†, clear obscure, breadth, light and shade, black and white, tonality.    reflection, refraction, dispersion; refractivity.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 845: beauty, the beautiful, to kalon [Gr.], le beau ideal.    [Science of the perception of beauty] aesthetics, callaesthetics^†.    [-beauty of people] pulchritude, form, elegance, grace, beauty unadorned, natural beauty; symmetry etc. 242; comeliness, fairness etc. adj.; polish, gloss; good effect, good looks; belle tournure^†; trigness^†; bloom, brilliancy, radiance, splendor, gorgeousness, magnificence; sublimity, sublimification^†.    concinnity^†, delicacy, refinement; charm, je ne sais quoi [Fr.], style.    Venus, Aphrodite^†, Hebe, the Graces, Peri, Houri, Cupid, Apollo^†, Hyperion, Adonis^†, Antionous^†, Narcissus.    peacock, butterfly; garden; flower of, pink of; bijou; jewel etc. (ornament) 847; work of art.    flower, flow'ret gay^†; [flowers: list] wildflower; rose, lily, anemone, asphodel, buttercup, crane's bill, daffodil, tulip, tiger lily, day lily, begonia, marigold, geranium, lily of the valley, ranunculus, rhododendron, windflower.    pleasurableness etc. 829.    beautifying; landscaping, landscape gardening; decoration etc. 847; calisthenics^†.    [person who is beautiful] beauty; hunk (of men). ... meer laten zien