coruscation

English

Noun

coruscation (plural coruscations)

1. A sudden display of brilliance; a flashing of light, a sparkle.
   • 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.

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