What is another word for illuminations?

Pronunciation: [ɪlˌuːmɪnˈe͡ɪʃənz] (IPA)

The word "illuminations" refers to the act of lighting up or brightening something, or a display of decorative lights. There are many synonyms that can be used to describe this term, including "lighting," "gleam," "radiance," "shine," "glowing," "brilliance," "luster," "sparkle," "flash," "twinkle," "glitter," "beaming," "iridescence," "reflections," "auroras," and "phosphorescence." All of these words can be used to convey the idea of something being lit up or illuminated, whether it be an interior space, an event, or a night sky. These synonyms can add color and variety to your vocabulary, making your writing more eloquent and descriptive.

What are the hypernyms for Illuminations?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Illuminations

Two more lights we saw were glowing to the south-east in Bombay itself-one, the light of the native fair, and a slight glow from the remains of the Bombay and Baroda Railway Offices, a great domed building that burned up last night after the illuminations.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
Every turn of hand and poise of body and arrangement of colour suggested the smiling figures you see on Persian illuminations.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
Stella takes out her watch to note the time by one of these momentary illuminations.
"Erlach Court"
Ossip Schubin

Famous quotes with Illuminations

  • The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
    Jacob Bronowski
  • There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Blackpool's illuminations are nothing if not splendid, and they are not splendid.
    Bill Bryson
  • What is the meaning of life? That was all — a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years. The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one. This, that, and the otherLife stand still here, Mrs. Ramsay said.She owed it all to her.
    Virginia Woolf
  • It came upon me sometime in my fifteenth year that I no longer woke up with sudden excitements—“Today I will get the Clerici solution! Today I will read about Humphry Davy and electric fish! Today I will finally understand diamagnetism, perhaps!” I no longer seemed to get these sudden illuminations, these epiphanies, these excitements which Flaubert (whom I was now reading) called “erections of the mind.” Erections of the body, yes, this was a new, exotic part of life—but those sudden raptures of the mind, those sudden landscapes of glory and illumination, seemed to have deserted or abandoned me. Or had I, in fact, abandoned them?
    Oliver Sacks

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