Synonyms for illumination
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Elucidation
2. Lighting
light, lighting, illuminance, enlightenment, lightness, lumination rare
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
The act of illuminating, or supplying with light; the state of being illuminated.
The room was filled with soft illumination from the candles.
- n. 2
Festive decoration of houses or buildings with lights.
Forms
- Plural
- illuminations → elucidations, clarifications, disambiguations, lights…
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Illumination is a wide-spread, brilliant light, as when all the windows of a house or of a street are lighted.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- elucidation Eschew obfuscation, espouse elucidation.
- lighting Yanni developed an obsession with lighting fires.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| illumination | falling | |
| elucidation | falling | |
| lighting | steady | |
| illuminance | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- light1
- 8 letters
- lighting2
- 9 letters
- miniature4, lightness2
- 10 letters
- lumination
- 11 letters
- elucidation, illuminance
- 13 letters
- enlightenment4, clarification5
- 14 letters
- disambiguation
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (lighting2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- illumination
- Italiano
- illuminazione