brilliance
noun/ˈbɹɪljən(t)s/
Etymology From brilliant + -ance. Compare French brillance.
1
Usually The quality of being exceptionally effulgent (giving off light).
- [G]arishly enough they [gas jets] glared there, transparently wannish as it were shamed, like blinking night-things surprised by the brilliance of day, they having so flared and stared for months, or years, inasmuch as they were now blazing diminished, with streaks and rays in the flame, as if by effort: […]1901, M[atthew] P[hipps] Shiel, The Purple Cloud, New York, N.Y.: Vanguard Press, published 1930, →OCLC, page 85:
2
Usually The quality of having extraordinary mental capacity.
3
UK, Usually Magnificence; resplendence.
- What brilliance it took from Harry Kane to control the cross and place the ball into the top corner.
- Derived terms
- overbrilliance, superbrilliance
- Related terms
- brilliant, brilliantly, brilliantness, beryl, beryllium