regality
Kingly dignity personified
Regality is the quality of being regal—the bearing, manner, or appearance associated with royalty.
Someone with regality carries themselves with dignity and commanding presence: She entered the room with unmistakable regality.
The word can describe actual royal status or simply majestic quality in anyone or anything.
Hereditary supreme ruler
- sovereignSupreme in power
- kingMale crowned ruler
- queenMost powerful chess piece
- emperorMale ruler of empire
empress · czar · sultan · pharaoh · raja · kaiser · shah · tsar
Impressive splendor and scale
- splendorImpressive, striking beauty
- magnificenceImpressive beauty or scale
- statelinessDignified, imposing quality
- dignityInnate personal worth
nobility · augustness · sublimity · resplendence · loftiness · bearing · presence · gravitas
Ceremony installing a sovereign
- enthronementFormal investiture of sovereign
- investitureCeremony conferring rank
- pageantryElaborate ceremonial display
- processionFormal moving line
anointment · ritual · pomp · inauguration · scepter · orb · ermine · train
Expensive nonessential comfort
- lavishnessExcessive richness or abundance
- sumptuousnessExtreme costly elegance
- extravaganceExcessive, wasteful spending
- richnessState of abundance
gilt · velvet · ermine · brocade · jewels · crown jewels · gold · silver
monarch
Hereditary supreme ruler
emperor · empress · czar · sultan · pharaoh · raja · kaiser · shah · tsar · caliph
grandeur
Impressive splendor and scale
- splendorImpressive, striking beauty
- magnificenceImpressive beauty or scale
- statelinessDignified, imposing quality
dignity · nobility · augustness · sublimity · resplendence · loftiness · bearing · presence · gravitas · poise
coronation
Ceremony installing a sovereign
- enthronementFormal investiture of sovereign
- investitureCeremony conferring rank
- pageantryElaborate ceremonial display
procession · anointment · ritual · pomp · inauguration · scepter · orb · ermine · train · fanfare
luxury
Expensive nonessential comfort
- lavishnessExcessive richness or abundance
- sumptuousnessExtreme costly elegance
- extravaganceExcessive, wasteful spending
richness · gilt · velvet · ermine · brocade · jewels · crown jewels · gold · silver · tapestry
aristocracy
Rule by hereditary elite
dynasty · ancestry · hereditary · birthright · pedigree · bloodline · descent · house · dynasty · titles
- grandeurmagnificence, majesty, splendor, grandness, greatness
- nobilityking, queen, prince, princess, duke
- dignified bearingdignity, poise, grace, composure, stateliness
- feudal landsfief, fiefdom, demesne, manor, barony
- Regal qualitiesdignified, stately, majestic, noble, commanding
- feudal divisionsmanor, barony, hundred, shire, county
regalitycommonness
Frequency of occurrence
lowliness · humbleness · peasantry · baseness · ordinariness
regalitycoarseness
Rough or vulgar quality
crudeness · vulgarity · uncouthness · boorishness · gracelessness
- royal regaliaMonarch's official ceremonial objects
- full regalia
- academic regaliaCeremonial university garments
- military regaliaArmed forces ceremonial ornaments
- imperial regaliaMonarch's official ceremonial objects
- coronation regaliaCeremonial objects for enthronement