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.
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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).
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