dazzlement

Definitions

1. A burst or flash of light; a cause of dazzling.
   countable, uncountable
2. The condition of being dazzled.
   countable, figuratively, sometimes, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“It had been very hot all the trip⟳, the hottest Nick had ever known; in Venice, for all its dazzlements, they had moved in a heatwave stink of decay […]”

“1965, Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization (1961), translated by Richard Howard, New York: Vintage, 1988, Chapter 4, Dazzlement is night in broad daylight, the darkness that rules at the very heart of what is excessive in light’s radiance. Dazzled reason⟳ opens its eyes upon the sun and sees nothing, that is, does not see⟳; in dazzlement, the recession of objects toward the depths of night has as an immediate correlative the suppression of vision itself; at the moment when it sees objects disappear⟳ into the secret night of light⟳, sight sees itself in the moment of its disappearance.”

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