Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A flash or gleam of light; a burst or play of light, as the reflection of lightning by clouds or of moonlight on the sea.
- n. Figuratively, a flash or gleam of intellectual brilliancy.
- n. Synonyms See glare, v.
Wiktionary
- n. A sudden display of brilliance; a flashing of light, a sparkle.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A sudden flash or play of light.
- n. A flash of intellectual brilliancy.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a sudden or striking display of brilliance
- n. the occurrence of a small flash or spark
Examples
“Borealian coruscation, which is scarcely within the modest and placid idiosyncracies of sixpence, -- but a gleam of gentle and benign light, just to show where a sixpence had been, and allow you time to say”
“And with that, a blinding flash of blue light exploded from his frame, and a luminous wave of purple coruscation propagated outwards through the forest.”
“He quickly activated the transporter, then turned to watch Lal disappear in a coruscation of white light.”
Simon & Schuster: Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light
“One more coruscation, my dear Watson -- yet another brain-wave!”
“Barack Obama: a coruscation of rhetoric masking a lack of weight and balance.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“The newspapers and magazines that fed the American mind — for books upon this impatient continent had become simply material for the energy of collectors — were instantly a coruscation of war pictures and of headlines that rose like rockets and burst like shells.”
“To the south-west hung Orion, showing like a pallid ghost through a tracery of iron-work and interlacing shapes above a dazzling coruscation of lights.”
“Duchesse de Guermantes, for her part, took good care not to invite when it was her turn to entertain the Princess, but substituted for them without any abstract reasoning about Bonapartism the most brilliant coruscation of all the beauties, all the talents, all the celebrities, who, the exercise of some subtle sixth sense made her feel, would be acceptable to the niece of the Emperor even when they belonged actually to the Royal House.”
“Darken Rahl came closer, close enough that the pain of his spirit coruscation was almost enough to make Richard back away.”
“The powers of the Sathid whirled away Jaric's view of Stormwarden, tower, and ocean in a blazing coruscation of energy no sorcerer could hope to survive.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘coruscation’.
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snarkout's Words
agenbite, scandent, vulpine, ratel, corvid, magpie, meline, musteline, ecdysiast, waxwing, abecedarian, guillotine and 111 more...
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There's a word for that?
temerity, tacit, froward, faineant, caterwaul, menagerie, ennui, sine qua non, lissom, multifarious, laconic, katzenjammer and 240 more...
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summer words 2009
how many words can I make mine this summer?
largess, hoyden, catholic, fornicatress, quean, slattern, bildungsroman, sybaritic, descresent, nodus, frittle, callipygian and 529 more...
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FTL
Words listed first by me that don't belong in any other list.
licit, precis, mnemosyne, badinage, mariposa, lepidoptera, coruscation, poignant, meme, oxymoron, xenophobia, asterism and 128 more...
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Awesome Words, Part 1: Less Common
These are words that I have learnt over the years and want to remember
epithalamium, hustings, verger, atheling, moue, pendulous, pendragon, funicular, pericope, fettle, eleemosynary, moot and 161 more...
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dark and bright words of shine and fi...
scotophil, scotoma, scotia, shed, shadow, shade, scone, whiting, edelweiss, light, lightning, lucina and 349 more...
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snickclunk's Words
bespoke, freshet, coquette, lath, victrola, feckless, viridian, lariat, sargasso, sobriquet, grift, sophistry and 134 more...
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Boost
coruscation, heuristics, proselytise, inveigh, perfunctory, churlish
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My List
A list of words that I have generated over time.
cairn, cacodaemoniacal, abash, abject, abjure, abstemious, abhor, abnegate, abnegation, abscond, abstruse, acclivity and 702 more...
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Oh them words, them words
My fancies, my cudgels.
liquescent, ferly, lamia, basilisk, trigon, fantast, stirp, tristesse, enfleurage, stemma, formicary, lacrimation and 346 more...
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19 c.
some of the interesting words i've had to look up while reading 19th century lit
maugre, connate, alembic, azote, vaticination, valetudinarian, dight, scutcheon, lammergeyer, chamois, asseverate, prebendary and 199 more...
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Dewitful
visions of witfulness and vision - a wise guise
revision, advisor, ideal, witty, witness, veda, druid, penguin, hadal, idea, story, history and 269 more...
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Exquisite.
Words to my liking. (The most lovelybeautifulintricatecondecendinggratuitous.)
unequivocally, destitute, prudent, sagacious, circumspect, discreet, rash, forethought, evince, judicious, shrewd, extravagant and 227 more...
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noele's list
vertiginous, verdant, mellifluous, serpentine, verdigris, traject, amaranthine, luminous, phosphorescent, temerous, cerulean, shapeshifter and 531 more...
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My Favourite Words Encountered While ...
dishabille, gormandise, opprobrium, interjaculate, halcyon, obloquy, apostasy, sententious, valetudinarian, Sybarite, hecatomb, coruscation and 19 more...
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easily forgotten
parsimony, vicarious, egregious, intercalation, epiphyte, alexandrine, parturition, eldritch, coruscation, scintillation, sesquipedalian, penumbra and 23 more...
Tweets
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jaime_d from Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus" Jan 11, 2009
adoarns Also, a symptom of having flashes of light pass before the eyes. Jan 28, 2008