brilliancies

Noun

brilliancy (countable and uncountable, plural brilliancies)

1. A shining quality; brilliance.
   • The beauty and brilliancy of this insect are indescribable, and none but a naturalist can understand the intense excitement I experienced when I at length captured it.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 51
2. An act of being brilliant.
   • His brilliancy lay in combining old concepts from far-flung fields into a new idea.
3. A spectacular and beautiful game of chess, generally featuring sacrificial attacks and unexpected moves.
   • Bobby Fischer, one of the greatest chess players who ever lived, died at the age of sixty-four from kidney failure. He had lived one year for each square on a chessboard. / THE GOOD / First of all, you should learn the term “brilliancy.” It refers to a game that is played with spectacular strategy...2015, Michael Hearst, Extraordinary People: A Semi-Comprehensive Guide to Some of the World's Most Fascinating Individuals, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 38