Meaning and example

the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light

The passage used "effulgence" to mean the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light.

Plain-English interpretation

A prevalence score of -0.133 places effulgence in the very rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 44.7% of people in the source dataset.

Related words

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Source attribution

Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.

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