"brilliance" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈbɹɪljən(t)s/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-brilliance.wav Forms: brilliances [plural]
enPR: brĭlyəns Etymology: Borrowed from French brillance. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|brillance}} French brillance Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} brilliance (usually uncountable, plural brilliances)
  1. The quality of being exceptionally effulgent (giving off light). Tags: uncountable, usually
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  2. The quality of having extraordinary mental capacity. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (The quality of having extraordinary mental capacity): интелигентност (inteligentnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), genialita [feminine] (Czech), etevyys (Finnish), lahjakkuus (Finnish), nerokkuus (Finnish), brillantez (Galician), Brillanz [feminine] (German), प्रतिभा (pratibhā) [feminine] (Hindi), ard-aghtallys [masculine] (Manx), ard-inçhynys [masculine] (Manx), błyskotliwość [feminine] (Polish), błyskotność [archaic, feminine] (Polish), genialitate [feminine] (Romanian), suprainteligență [feminine] (Romanian), inteligență genială [feminine] (Romanian), brillantez [feminine] (Spanish)
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  3. (chiefly British) Magnificence; resplendence. Tags: British, uncountable, usually Translations (Magnificence; resplendence): շուք (šukʻ) (Armenian), блясък (bljasǎk) [masculine] (Bulgarian), великолепие (velikolepie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), महिमा (mahimā) [feminine] (Hindi), भव्यता (bhavyatā) [feminine] (Hindi), deynte (Middle English), splendoare [feminine] (Romanian), măreție [feminine] (Romanian), grandoare [feminine] (Romanian), magnificență (Romanian), तेजस् (tejas) [neuter] (Sanskrit)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: brilliancy, overbrilliance, superbrilliance Related terms: brilliant, brilliantly, brilliantness, beryl [possibly], beryllium [possibly] Translations (The quality of being exceptionally effulgent): λαμπρότης (lamprótēs) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), αὐγή (augḗ) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), bansay (Bikol Central), яркост (jarkost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), блясък (bljasǎk) [masculine] (Bulgarian), (huī) (Chinese Mandarin), kirkkaus (Finnish), brillantez [feminine] (Galician), प्रतिभा (pratibhā) [feminine] (Hindi), blask [masculine] (Polish), świetlistość [feminine] (Polish), strălucire [feminine] (Romanian), brillantez [feminine] (Spanish)
Disambiguation of 'The quality of being exceptionally effulgent': 48 50 1

Inflected forms

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          "word": "splendoare"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 3 91",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "Magnificence; resplendence",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "măreție"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 3 91",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "Magnificence; resplendence",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "grandoare"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 3 91",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "Magnificence; resplendence",
          "word": "magnificență"
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          "_dis1": "6 3 91",
          "code": "sa",
          "lang": "Sanskrit",
          "roman": "tejas",
          "sense": "Magnificence; resplendence",
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          ],
          "word": "तेजस्"
        }
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    }
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    {
      "enpr": "brĭlyəns"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɹɪljən(t)s/"
    },
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      "_dis1": "48 50 1",
      "code": "bcl",
      "lang": "Bikol Central",
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      "word": "bansay"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 50 1",
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      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "jarkost",
      "sense": "The quality of being exceptionally effulgent",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "яркост"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 50 1",
      "code": "bg",
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      "roman": "bljasǎk",
      "sense": "The quality of being exceptionally effulgent",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "блясък"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 50 1",
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "huī",
      "sense": "The quality of being exceptionally effulgent",
      "word": "辉"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 50 1",
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "The quality of being exceptionally effulgent",
      "word": "kirkkaus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 50 1",
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "The quality of being exceptionally effulgent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "brillantez"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 50 1",
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "lamprótēs",
      "sense": "The quality of being exceptionally effulgent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "λαμπρότης"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 50 1",
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "augḗ",
      "sense": "The quality of being exceptionally effulgent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "αὐγή"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 50 1",
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      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "pratibhā",
      "sense": "The quality of being exceptionally effulgent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "प्रतिभा"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 50 1",
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "The quality of being exceptionally effulgent",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "blask"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 50 1",
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "The quality of being exceptionally effulgent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "świetlistość"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 50 1",
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "The quality of being exceptionally effulgent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "strălucire"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 50 1",
      "code": "es",
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      "tags": [
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  ],
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}
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    "Terms with Armenian translations",
    "Terms with Bikol Central translations",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with Galician translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Hindi translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Manx translations",
    "Terms with Middle English translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Romanian translations",
    "Terms with Sanskrit translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations"
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    {
      "word": "brilliancy"
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      "word": "overbrilliance"
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      "word": "superbrilliance"
    }
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      "word": "brilliant"
    },
    {
      "word": "brilliantly"
    },
    {
      "word": "brilliantness"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "possibly"
      ],
      "word": "beryl"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "possibly"
      ],
      "word": "beryllium"
    }
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "The quality of being exceptionally effulgent (giving off light)."
      ],
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          "quality"
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          "effulgent",
          "effulgent"
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      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The quality of having extraordinary mental capacity."
      ],
      "links": [
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          "extraordinary",
          "extraordinary"
        ],
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          "mental",
          "mental"
        ]
      ],
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        {
          "text": "What brilliance it took from Harry Kane to control the cross and place the ball into the top corner.",
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        "Magnificence; resplendence."
      ],
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          "Magnificence",
          "magnificence"
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          "resplendence"
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        "(chiefly British) Magnificence; resplendence."
      ],
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        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
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      "enpr": "brĭlyəns"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɹɪljən(t)s/"
    },
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      "code": "bcl",
      "lang": "Bikol Central",
      "sense": "The quality of being exceptionally effulgent",
      "word": "bansay"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "jarkost",
      "sense": "The quality of being exceptionally effulgent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "яркост"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "bljasǎk",
      "sense": "The quality of being exceptionally effulgent",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "блясък"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "huī",
      "sense": "The quality of being exceptionally effulgent",
      "word": "辉"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "The quality of being exceptionally effulgent",
      "word": "kirkkaus"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "The quality of being exceptionally effulgent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "brillantez"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "lamprótēs",
      "sense": "The quality of being exceptionally effulgent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "λαμπρότης"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "augḗ",
      "sense": "The quality of being exceptionally effulgent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "αὐγή"
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      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "pratibhā",
      "sense": "The quality of being exceptionally effulgent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "प्रतिभा"
    },
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "The quality of being exceptionally effulgent",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "blask"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "The quality of being exceptionally effulgent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "świetlistość"
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "The quality of being exceptionally effulgent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "strălucire"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "The quality of being exceptionally effulgent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "brillantez"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "inteligentnost",
      "sense": "The quality of having extraordinary mental capacity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "интелигентност"
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    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "The quality of having extraordinary mental capacity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "genialita"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "The quality of having extraordinary mental capacity",
      "word": "etevyys"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "The quality of having extraordinary mental capacity",
      "word": "lahjakkuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "The quality of having extraordinary mental capacity",
      "word": "nerokkuus"
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    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "The quality of having extraordinary mental capacity",
      "word": "brillantez"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "The quality of having extraordinary mental capacity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Brillanz"
    },
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      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "pratibhā",
      "sense": "The quality of having extraordinary mental capacity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "प्रतिभा"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "The quality of having extraordinary mental capacity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ard-aghtallys"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "The quality of having extraordinary mental capacity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ard-inçhynys"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "The quality of having extraordinary mental capacity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "błyskotliwość"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "The quality of having extraordinary mental capacity",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "błyskotność"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "The quality of having extraordinary mental capacity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "genialitate"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "The quality of having extraordinary mental capacity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "suprainteligență"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "The quality of having extraordinary mental capacity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "inteligență genială"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "The quality of having extraordinary mental capacity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "brillantez"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "šukʻ",
      "sense": "Magnificence; resplendence",
      "word": "շուք"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "bljasǎk",
      "sense": "Magnificence; resplendence",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "блясък"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "velikolepie",
      "sense": "Magnificence; resplendence",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "великолепие"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "mahimā",
      "sense": "Magnificence; resplendence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "महिमा"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "bhavyatā",
      "sense": "Magnificence; resplendence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "भव्यता"
    },
    {
      "code": "enm",
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "sense": "Magnificence; resplendence",
      "word": "deynte"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "Magnificence; resplendence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "splendoare"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "Magnificence; resplendence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "măreție"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "Magnificence; resplendence",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "grandoare"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "Magnificence; resplendence",
      "word": "magnificență"
    },
    {
      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "tejas",
      "sense": "Magnificence; resplendence",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "तेजस्"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "brilliance"
  ],
  "word": "brilliance"
}

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