coruscation

coruscation

English

Noun

coruscation (countable and uncountable, plural coruscations)

1. A sudden display of brilliance; a flashing of light; a sparkle.
   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     [I]n the dusky galleries, duskier with unwashed heads, is a strange 'coruscation,'—of impromptu billhooks.

   • 2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf (2001), 6,

     All of these things - the rubbed amber, the magnets, the crystal radio, the clock dials with their tireless coruscations - gave me a sense of invisible rays and forces, a sense that beneath the familiar, visible world of colors and appearances there lay a dark, hidden world of mysterious laws and phenomena.

Translations

sudden display of brilliance

Bulgarian: блясък (bg) (bljasǎk), искрене (bg) (iskrene) French: coruscation (fr) f, fulgurance (fr) f Hungarian: felvillanás, felcsillanás (hu), fellobbanás (hu), fellángolás

Italian: corruscazione (it) f Portuguese: coruscação f