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brilliances

brilliances is the plural of brilliance.

Meaning of brilliance

Noun

brilliance (usually uncountable, plural brilliances)

  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...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.

Questions about brilliances

What is brilliances the plural of?
Brilliances is the plural of brilliance.

Words near brilliances in the dictionary

  1. brille
  2. brilles
  3. Brillhart
  4. Brillharts
  5. brilliance
  6. brilliances
  7. brilliancies
  8. brilliancy
  9. brilliandeer
  10. brilliandeers
  11. brilliant

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