magnificence Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun splendid or imposing in size or appearance
    impressiveness; grandness; richness.
    • the grandness of the architecture
    • impressed by the richness of the flora
  2. noun the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand
    grandness; brilliance; splendour; grandeur; splendor.
    • for magnificence and personal service there is the Queen's hotel
    • his `Hamlet' lacks the brilliance that one expects
    • it is the university that gives the scene its stately splendor
    • an imaginative mix of old-fashioned grandeur and colorful art
    • advertisers capitalize on the grandness and elegance it brings to their products

WordNet

Mag*nif"i*cence noun
Etymology
F. magnificence, L. magnificentia. See Magnific.
Definitions
  1. The act of doing what magnificent; the state or quality of being magnificent. Acts xix. 27. "Then cometh magnificence." Chaucer.
    And, for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak The Maker's high magnificence, who built so spacious. Milton.
    The noblest monuments of Roman magnificence. Eustace.

Webster 1913