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dazzlement

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A burst or flash of light; a cause of dazzling.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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noun

Meaning 2

The condition of being dazzled.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, figuratively, sometimes, uncountable

Examples

  • 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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History

Etymology

From dazzle + -ment.