The quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand:
— For magnificence and personal service there is the Queen's hotel.
synonyms: brilliance, grandeur, grandness, splendor, splendour.
Roget 882:
ostentation,
display,
show,
flourish,
parade,
etalage [Fr.],
pomp,
array,
state,
solemnity;
dash,
splash,
splurge,
glitter,
strut,
pomposity;
pretense,
pretensions;
showing off;
fuss.
magnificence,
splendor;
coup d'oeil [Fr.];
grand doings.
coup de theatre;
stage effect,
stage trick;
claptrap;
mise en scene [Fr.];
tour de force;
chic.
demonstration,
flying colors;
tomfoolery;
flourish of trumpets
etc.
(celebration)
883;
pageant,
pageantry;
spectacle,
exhibition,
exposition,
procession;
turn out,
set out;
grand function;
f=ete,
gala,
field day,
review,
march past,
promenade,
insubstantial pageant.
dress;
court dress,
full dress,
evening dress,
ball dress,
fancy dress;
tailoring,
millinery,
man millinery,
frippery,
foppery,
equipage.
ceremony,
ceremonial;
ritual;
form,
formality;
etiquette;
puncto [Lat.],
punctilio,
punctiliousness;
starched stateliness,
stateliness.
mummery,
solemn mockery,
mouth honor.
attitudinarian†;
fop
etc.
854.
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Roget 845:
beauty,
the beautiful,
to kalon [Gr.],
le beau ideal.
[Science of the perception of beauty]
aesthetics,
callaesthetics†.
[-beauty of people]
pulchritude,
form,
elegance,
grace,
beauty unadorned,
natural beauty;
symmetry
etc.
242;
comeliness,
fairness
etc.
adj.;
polish,
gloss;
good effect,
good looks;
belle tournure†;
trigness†;
bloom,
brilliancy,
radiance,
splendor,
gorgeousness,
magnificence;
sublimity,
sublimification†.
concinnity†,
delicacy,
refinement;
charm,
je ne sais quoi [Fr.],
style.
Venus,
Aphrodite†,
Hebe,
the Graces,
Peri,
Houri,
Cupid,
Apollo†,
Hyperion,
Adonis†,
Antionous†,
Narcissus.
peacock,
butterfly;
garden;
flower of,
pink of;
bijou;
jewel
etc.
(ornament)
847;
work of art.
flower,
flow'ret gay†;
[flowers: list]
wildflower;
rose,
lily,
anemone,
asphodel,
buttercup,
crane's bill,
daffodil,
tulip,
tiger lily,
day lily,
begonia,
marigold,
geranium,
lily of the valley,
ranunculus,
rhododendron,
windflower.
pleasurableness
etc.
829.
beautifying;
landscaping,
landscape gardening;
decoration
etc.
847;
calisthenics†.
[person who is beautiful]
beauty;
hunk
(of men).
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Dutch: glans, grandeur, grootsheid, heerlijkheid, luister, majesteit, praal, pracht, schittering
Polish: świetność, blask, bajeczność, splendor, wspaniałość