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dazzlements

dazzlements is the plural of dazzlement.

Meaning of dazzlement

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

Questions about dazzlements

What is dazzlements the plural of?
Dazzlements is the plural of dazzlement.

Words near dazzlements in the dictionary

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

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