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fulgidity

fulgidity noun: splendour; resplendence; effulgence.

Noun

fulgidity (usually uncountable, plural fulgidities)

  1. (obsolete, usually) splendour; resplendence; effulgence
    • The ceruleous canopy was merging into fulgidity from the ascension of Phoebus—every entity about me seemed to revel in the universal resuscitation.1870, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant: In the East

Forms of fulgidity

pluralfulgidities

Origin of fulgidity

From fulgid + -ity. By surface analysis, Latin fulg(ere) + -id + -i- + -ty.

Questions about fulgidity

What does fulgidity mean?
Fulgidity means splendour; resplendence; effulgence.
What part of speech is fulgidity?
Fulgidity is a noun.
What is the plural of fulgidity?
The plural of fulgidity is fulgidities.

Words near fulgidity in the dictionary

  1. Fulghums
  2. fulgid
  3. fulgide
  4. fulgides
  5. fulgidities
  6. fulgidity
  7. Fulginiti
  8. Fulginitis
  9. fulgor
  10. Fulgora
  11. fulgorid

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