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Brilliance vs Radiance - What's the difference?

brilliance | radiance | Related terms |

As nouns the difference between brilliance and radiance

is that brilliance is the quality of being exceptionally effulgent (giving off light) while radiance is the quality of being radiant, shining, bright or splendid.

brilliance

English

(wikipedia brilliance)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The quality of being exceptionally effulgent (giving off light).
  • The quality of having extraordinary mental capacity.
  • Magnificence; resplendence.

    • Derived terms

    * brilliancy

    Related terms

    * brilliant * brilliantly * brilliantness

    radiance

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia radiance)
  • the quality of being radiant, shining, bright or splendid
    • Girt with omnipotence, with radiance crowned. — Milton.
  • (physics) the flux of radiation emitted per unit solid angle in a given direction by a unit area of a source