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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
magnificence is a noun meaning "splendid or imposing in size or appearance". It carries 2 recorded senses.
splendid or imposing in size or appearance
“the grandness of the architecture”
“impressed by the richness of the flora”
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”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for magnificence come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.