resplendency means resplendence, radiant beauty. It carries an Arena rating of 1465, earned across 6 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, resplendency ranks #1,139 of 17,130 for Most Beautiful Words, #1,731 of 17,124 for Most Sublime Words, #3,665 of 17,143 for Best Fossil-Poetry Words, #4,281 of 17,126 for Most Satisfying to Say.
Why “resplendency” is a great word
A state or quality of shining brilliantly; radiant beauty or splendor. From Latin resplendere ("to shine brightly"), from re- (intensive) + splendere ("to shine"). Unlike “splendor,” which implies a magnificent, often grandiose display, or “gloriousness,” which is earned through praiseworthy deeds, resplendency is the pure, intrinsic fact of light made perfect. It is the molten gold of a bee’s wing caught in a shaft of light, the sudden mirror-flash of a fish rising through dark water, or the impossible, gem-like clarity of a stained-glass window from within a dark cathedral—a brilliance that seems not to illuminate the world, but to momentarily arrest its decay.
Etymology
Latin, from resplendere (“to shine brightly”).
noun
- resplendence, radiant beautye.g.“the resplendency of his own almighty goodness” — c. 1681, John Scott, The Christian Life from its beginning to its Consummation in Glory […] :
- A property of the truth of sentence structures in Peano arithmetic
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