Noun brilliance has 3 senses
  1. glare, blaze, brilliance - great brightness; "a glare of sunlight"; "the flowers were a blaze of color"
    --1 is a kind of brightness
  2. magnificence, brilliance, splendor, splendour, grandeur, grandness - the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand
    --2 is a kind of elegance
    --2 has particulars: eclat
  3. brilliance, genius - unusual mental ability
    --3 is a kind of intelligence
    --3 has particulars: coruscation; pyrotechnics; scintillation
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