fulgidity

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English

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Etymology

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fulgid +‎ -ity

Noun

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fulgidity (usually uncountable, plural fulgidities)

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