MAGNIFICENCE

impressiveness, grandness, magnificence, richness

(noun) splendid or imposing in size or appearance; “the grandness of the architecture”; “impressed by the richness of the flora”

magnificence, brilliance, splendor, splendour, grandeur, grandness

(noun) the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand; “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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

magnificence (countable and uncountable, plural magnificences)

grandeur, brilliance, lavishness or splendor

The act of doing what is magnificent; the state or quality of being magnificent.

impressiveness

Source: Wiktionary


Mag*nif"i*cence, n. Etym: [F. magnificence, L. magnificentia. See Magnific.]

Definition: The act of doing what magnificent; the state or quality of being magnificent. Acts xix. 27. "Then cometh magnificence." Chaucer. And, for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak The Maker's high magnificence, who built so spacious. Milton. The noblest monuments of Roman magnificence. Eustace.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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