Definitions for brilliance

brilliance bril·liance

Spelling: [bril-yuh ns]
IPA: /ˈbrɪl yəns/

Brilliance is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 495 anagrams from letters in brilliance (abceiillnr).

Definitions for brilliance

noun

  1. great brightness; luster:
  2. excellence or distinction; conspicuous talent, mental ability, etc.
  3. splendor, elegance, or magnificence:
  4. Optics. that luminance of a body consisting of its saturation and brightness.

Origin of brilliance

First recorded in 1745-55; brilli(ant) + -ance

Examples for brilliance

They achieve repartee the brilliance of which dazzles him to contemptible silence.

But this soft and greedy subversive organelle is no match for the brilliance of our scientists!

Their faces shone with a brilliance of awareness and he knew that they loved him.

None of them came close to the brilliance of what Beyoncé had accomplished.

For the brilliance of its social life there were several reasons.

As TechCrunch pointed out, the brilliance in its bare bones appeal could reach a worth of one billion dollars.

Gen. George S. Patton is famed for his brilliance in World War II.

The brilliance of this scene, and this season, is that there are no good guys and bad guys.

The sun shone with a brilliance that to such eyes as mine was a very mockery.

Toward the south the waves moved with great velocity and brilliance.

Word Value for brilliance
Scrable

14

Words with friends

19

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