effulgence

Other forms of effulgence

plural

effulgences·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about effulgence

What does effulgence mean?

effulgence means "the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light".

How many syllables are in effulgence?

effulgence has 3 syllables: ef-ful-gence. The stress falls on "ef".

What is another word for effulgence?

Close synonyms include radiance, radiancy, shine, refulgence, refulgency. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is effulgence a common word?

effulgence is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.