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Sheen is a related term of coruscation.


As a proper noun sheen

is .

As a noun coruscation is

a sudden display of brilliance; a flashing of light, a sparkle.

sheen

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) shene, from (etyl)

Adjective

(wikipedia sheen) (en adjective)
  • (rare, poetic) beautiful, good-looking, attractive; radiant; shiny.
  • * Fairfax
    • Up rose each warrier bold and brave, / Glistening in filed steel and armor sheen .

    Noun

    (sheens)
  • splendor; radiance; shininess.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To shine; to glisten.
  • * Byron
    • This town, / That, sheening far, celestial seems to be.

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The letter in the Arabic script.

    • coruscation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sudden display of brilliance; a flashing of light, a sparkle.
  • * 2001, (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.