éblouissement
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From éblouir (“to dazzle”) + -ment.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]éblouissement m (plural éblouissements)
- glare, dazzle
- 1862, Victor Hugo, chapter 14, in Les Misérables, Tome I : Fantine, book 1:
- La méditation humaine n’a point de limite. À ses risques et périls, elle analyse et creuse son propre éblouissement.
- Human meditation has no limits. At his own risk and peril, it analyzes and digs deep into its own bedazzlement.
- dizziness
Further reading
[edit]- “éblouissement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.