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dazzlement

dazzlement noun: a burst or flash of light; a cause of dazzling.

Noun

dazzlement (countable and uncountable, plural dazzlements)

  1. A burst or flash of light; a cause of dazzling.
    • It had been very hot all the trip, the hottest Nick had ever known; in Venice, for all its dazzlements, they had moved in a heatwave stink of decay […]2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 11, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN
  2. (figuratively, sometimes) The condition of being dazzled.
    • Dazzlement is night in broad daylight, the darkness that rules at the very heart of what is excessive in light’s radiance. Dazzled reason opens its eyes upon the sun and sees nothing, that is, does not see; in dazzlement, the recession of objects toward the depths of night has as an immediate...1965, Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization (1961), translated by Richard Howard, New York: Vintage, 1988, Chapter 4

Forms of dazzlement

pluraldazzlements

Origin of dazzlement

From dazzle + -ment.

Questions about dazzlement

What does dazzlement mean?
Dazzlement means a burst or flash of light; a cause of dazzling.
What part of speech is dazzlement?
Dazzlement is a noun.
What is the plural of dazzlement?
The plural of dazzlement is dazzlements.

Words near dazzlement in the dictionary

  1. Dazza
  2. dazzle
  3. dazzle camouflage
  4. dazzle painting
  5. dazzled
  6. dazzlement
  7. dazzlements
  8. dazzler
  9. dazzlers
  10. dazzles
  11. dazzlesome

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