Coruscation

//ˌkɒɹəsˈkeɪʃən//

Synonyms for "coruscation" (24 found)

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Translations

13 translations across 6 languages.

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Bulgarian

2 entries
  • блясък noun (sudden display of brilliance)
  • искрене noun (sudden display of brilliance)

French

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  • coruscation noun (sudden display of brilliance)
  • fulgurance noun (sudden display of brilliance)

German

3 entries
  • Aufblitzen noun (sudden display of brilliance)
  • Blitzen noun (sudden display of brilliance)
  • Funkeln noun (sudden display of brilliance)

Hungarian

4 entries
  • felcsillanás noun (sudden display of brilliance)
  • fellobbanás noun (sudden display of brilliance)
  • fellángolás noun (sudden display of brilliance)
  • felvillanás noun (sudden display of brilliance)

Italian

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  • corruscazione noun (sudden display of brilliance)

Portuguese

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  • coruscação noun (sudden display of brilliance)

Sample sentences

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[I]n the dusky galleries, duskier with unwashed heads, is a strange 'coruscation,'—of impromptu billhooks.

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The one, as a brilliant coruscation playing in a summer sky, might enchant the fancy and ensure the suffrage of a moment; the other, as a lovely constellation, though less vivid, yet from its undeviating steadfastness never failed to leave upon the observer impressions more truly gratifying, solid, and lasting.

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2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf (2001), 6, All of these things—the rubbed amber, the magnets, the crystal radio, the clock dials with their tireless coruscations—gave me a sense of invisible rays and forces, a sense that beneath the familiar, visible world of colors and appearances there lay a dark, hidden world of mysterious laws and phenomena.

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