different between dazzle vs vividness

English

Etymology

daze +? -le, a frequentative form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dæz?l/
• Rhymes: -æz?l

Verb

dazzle (third-person singular simple present dazzles, present participle dazzling, simple past and past participle dazzled)

1. (transitive) To confuse the sight of by means of excessive brightness.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance.

   Synonyms: impress, overpower

3. (intransitive) To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.

Derived terms

• bedazzle
• dazzler
• dazzlement
• endazzle
• endazzlement

Translations

Noun

dazzle (countable and uncountable, plural dazzles)

1. A light of dazzling brilliancy.
2. (figuratively) Showy brilliance that may stop a person from thinking clearly.
3. (uncommon) A herd of zebra.
   • 1958, Laurens Van der Post, The lost world of the Kalahari: with the great and the little memory (1998 David Coulson edition):

     We were trying to stalk a dazzle of zebra which flashed in and out of a long strip of green and yellow fever trees, with an ostrich, its feathers flared like a ballet skirt around its dancing legs, on their flank, when suddenly […]
4. (uncountable) Dazzle camouflage.

Synonyms

• (group of zebras): herd, zeal.

Translations

English

Etymology

vivid +? -ness

Noun

vividness (usually uncountable, plural vividnesses)

1. The quality or state of being vivid.
   • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 118):

     I felt light-headed; grotesque hallucinations materialised before me with startling vividness.

Synonyms

• vividity (rare)

Translations

Further reading

• vividness in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.