brilliance
pronunciation
How to pronounce brilliance in British English:
UK ['brɪlɪəns]
How to pronounce brilliance in American English:
US [ˈbrɪljəns]
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- Noun:
- great brightness
- the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand
- unusual mental ability
Word Origin
- brilliance (n.)
- 1755, from brilliant + -ance. Figurative sense (of wit, intelligence, etc.) is from 1779. Distinguished from brilliancy in that the latter usually is applied to things measurable in degrees.
Example
- 1. Here you go parents dazzle your children with your brilliance !
- 2. Don 't get me wrong : I value things like a college education and mathematical brilliance .
- 3. Yet cosimo did not earn his honorary title " father of his country " through financial brilliance .
- 4. And this brilliance remained undimmed even when the empire 's geopolitical fortunes were collapsing .
- 5. It 's one way in which our minds own brilliance lets us down .