Definition of "brilliance" []

• The state or quality of being brilliant, as: (noun)
• Extreme brightness. (noun)
• Exceptional clarity and agility of intellect or invention. (noun)
• Splendor; magnificence. (noun)
• Music Sharpness and clarity of tone. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The Randy Moss trade was an exercise in brilliance from the New England head coach."
• "NO ONE will think that my brilliance is as brilliant as my Daddy did. most importantly"
• "And thus by degrees was lit, half – way down the spine, which is the seat of the soul, not that hard little electric light which we call brilliance, as it pops in and out upon our lips, but the more profound, subtle and subterranean glow which is the rich yellow flame of rational intercourse."