Synonyms for illumination
ɪˌlu məˈneɪ ʃən

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1. light, illumination(noun)

   a condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination

   "follow God's light"

   Synonyms:
   miniature, igniter, lighting, clarification, lightness, sparkle, light source, brightness level, elucidation, spark, brightness, luminosity, lighter, visible radiation, luminousness, luminance, light, ignitor, twinkle, illuminance, visible light

2. illumination(noun)

   the degree of visibility of your environment

   Synonyms:
   illuminance, miniature, light, clarification, elucidation

3. clarification, elucidation, illumination(noun)

   an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding

   "the professor's clarification helped her to understand the textbook"

   Synonyms:
   miniature, illuminance, clarification, light, clearing, elucidation

4. illuminance, illumination(noun)

   the luminous flux incident on a unit area

   Synonyms:
   miniature, illuminance, light, clarification, elucidation

5. miniature, illumination(noun)

   painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts)

   Synonyms:
   miniature, illuminance, light, toy, clarification, elucidation

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1. illumination

   Light, strictly denoting a form of radiant energy, is used as a general term for any luminous effect discernible by the eye, from the faintest phosphorescence to the blaze of the noonday sun. A flame is both hot and luminous; if it contains few solid particles it will yield little light, tho it may afford intense heat, as in the case of a hydrogen-flame. A blaze is an extensive, brilliant flame. A flare is a wavering flame or blaze; a flash is a light that appears and disappears in an instant; as, a flash of lightning; the flash of gunpowder. The glare and glow are steady, the glare painfully bright, the glow subdued; as, the glare of torches; the glow of dying embers. Shine and shining refer to a steady or continuous emission of light; sheen is a faint shining, usually by reflection. Glimmer, glitter, and shimmer denote wavering light. We speak of the glimmer of distant lamps through the mist; of the shimmer of waves in sunlight or moonlight. A gleam is not wavering, but transient or intermittent; a sudden gleam of light came through the half-open door; a glitter is a hard light; as, the glitter of burnished arms. A sparkle is a sudden light, as of sparks thrown out; scintillation is the more exact and scientific term for the actual emission of sparks, also the figurative term for what suggests such emission; as, scintillations of wit or of genius. Twinkle and twinkling are used of the intermittent light of the fixed stars. Glistening is a shining as from a wet surface. Illumination is a wide-spread, brilliant light, as when all the windows of a house or of a street are lighted. The light of incandescence is intense and white like that from metal at a white heat.

   Synonyms:
   blaze, flame, flare, flash, flicker, glare, gleam, gleaming, glimmer, glistening, glistering, glitter, glow, incandescence, light, luster, scintillation, sheen, shimmer, shine, shining, sparkle, twinkle, twinkling

   Antonyms:
   blackness, dark, darkness, dimness, dusk, gloom, gloominess, obscurity, shade, shadow

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1. List of paraphrases:

   lighting, enlightenment, light, illuminating, illumi, irradiance, lights, ignition, epiphany

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