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brilliance
The state or quality of being brilliant, as:
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  1. The state or quality of being brilliant, as:
  2. Exceptional clarity and agility of intellect or invention.
  3. The fact of being brilliant; great brightness, radiance, intensity, splendor, intelligence, etc.
fire
A rapid, persistent chemical change that releases heat and light and is accompanied by flame, especially the exothermic oxidation of a combustible substance:
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  1. A rapid, persistent chemical change that releases heat and light and is accompanied by flame, especially the exothermic oxidation of a combustible substance:
  2. The discharge of firearms or artillery:
  3. Liveliness and vivacity of imagination; brilliance:
luminosity
The ratio of luminous flux at a specific wavelength to the radiant flux at the same wavelength.
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  1. The ratio of luminous flux at a specific wavelength to the radiant flux at the same wavelength.
  2. (Astronomy) the rate at which a star radiates energy in all directions
  3. (Physics) the ratio of luminous flux to radiant flux at the same wavelength; the luminosity factor
radiance
The quality or state of being radiant; brightness
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  1. The quality or state of being radiant; brightness
  2. (Physics) The radiant energy emitted per unit time in a specified direction by a unit area of an emitting surface.
brilliance
The state or quality of being brilliant, as:
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  1. The state or quality of being brilliant, as:
  2. The fact of being brilliant; great brightness, radiance, intensity, splendor, intelligence, etc.
  3. Exceptional clarity and agility of intellect or invention.
fire
A rapid, persistent chemical change that releases heat and light and is accompanied by flame, especially the exothermic oxidation of a combustible substance:
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  1. A rapid, persistent chemical change that releases heat and light and is accompanied by flame, especially the exothermic oxidation of a combustible substance:
  2. The discharge of firearms or artillery:
  3. Liveliness and vivacity of imagination; brilliance:
genius
Extraordinary intellectual and creative power:
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  1. Extraordinary intellectual and creative power:
  2. Particular character or essential spirit or nature of a nation, place, age, etc.
  3. Either of two spirits, one good and one evil, supposed to influence one's destiny
inspiration
An inspiring influence; any stimulus to creative thought or action
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  1. An inspiring influence; any stimulus to creative thought or action
  2. Something, such as a sudden creative act or idea, that is inspired:
  3. The act of drawing in, especially the inhalation of air into the lungs.
brilliance
The fact of being brilliant; great brightness, radiance, intensity, splendor, intelligence, etc.
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  1. The fact of being brilliant; great brightness, radiance, intensity, splendor, intelligence, etc.
  2. Exceptional clarity and agility of intellect or invention.
  3. Splendor; magnificence.
glitter
Brilliant or showy, often superficial attractiveness.
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  1. Brilliant or showy, often superficial attractiveness.
  2. A sparkling or glistening light.
  3. A bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage.
glory
Majestic beauty and splendor; resplendence:
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  1. Majestic beauty and splendor; resplendence:
  2. Radiant beauty or splendor; magnificence
  3. A highly praiseworthy asset:
gorgeousness
The characteristic or quality of being gorgeous
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  1. The characteristic or quality of being gorgeous
magnificence
Greatness or lavishness of surroundings; splendor.
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  1. Greatness or lavishness of surroundings; splendor.
  2. Grandeur, brilliance, lavishness or splendor
  3. Richness and splendor, as of furnishings, color, dress, etc.; stately or imposing beauty
resplendence
The property of being, or that which causes something to be, resplendent.
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  1. The property of being, or that which causes something to be, resplendent.
sparkle
Brilliant animation; vivacity.
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  1. Brilliant animation; vivacity.
  2. A little spark; a scintillation.
  3. Brilliance; liveliness; vivacity
sumptuousness
(Uncountable) The state or quality of being sumptuous.
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  1. (Uncountable) The state or quality of being sumptuous.
  2. (Countable, rare) The result or product of being sumptuous.
glitz
Ostentatious showiness; flashiness:
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  1. Ostentatious showiness; flashiness:
  2. (Informal) Gaudy or glittery showiness or attractiveness; ostentation
Find another word for brilliancy. In this page you can discover 21 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for brilliancy, like: brilliance, fire, luminosity, radiance, brilliance, fire, genius, inspiration, brilliance, glitter and glory.

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  • Every Italian artist and man of letters in an age of singular intellectual brilliancy tasted or hoped to taste of his bounty.

  • Oaks and wild prunus, wild vines and sumachs, various kinds of maple, the dOdan (Enkianthus Japonicus Hook.)a wonderful bush which in autumn develops a hue of ruddy redbirches and other trees, all add multitudinous colors to the brilliancy of a spectacle which is further enriched by masses of feathery bamboo.

  • They were all gentle and sympathetic and I felt the charm of their manner as much as I had felt the brilliancy of their essays and poems.

  • But the second, notwithstanding the brilliancy of the narrative and the masterly art in the grouping of events, suffers from a radical defect which renders it a misleading guide.

  • This determination closes the first chapter of his life; the second, from 1304 to 1314, is occupied by his contest for the kingdom, which was really won at Bannockburn, though disputed until the treaty of Northampton in 1328; the last, from 1314 to his death in 1329, was the period of the establishment of his government and dynasty by an administration as skilful as his generalship. It is to the second of these that historians, attracted by its brilliancy even amongst the many romances of history and its importance to Scottish history, have directed most of their attention, and it is during it that his personal character, tried by adversity and prosperity, gradually unfolds itself.

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