noun
- A quality that outshines the usual.
- synonyms: luster, lustre, brilliancy, splendour
- The quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: magnificence, brilliance, splendour, grandeur, grandness
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