Brilliancy vs Genius - What's the difference?
brilliancy | genius | Synonyms |
a shining quality; brilliance.
An act of being brilliant.
(label) A spectacular and beautiful game of chess, generally featuring sacrificial attacks and unexpected moves.
(informal) ingenious, very clever, or original.
(eulogistic) Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art etc.
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Extraordinary mental capacity.
Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process.
(Roman mythology) The guardian spirit of a place or person.
A way of thinking, optimizing one's capacity for learning and understanding.
Brilliancy is a synonym of genius.
As nouns the difference between brilliancy and genius
is that brilliancy is a shining quality; brilliance while genius is genius (extraordinary mental capacity).brilliancy
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Noun
genius
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(wikipedia genius)Adjective
(-)- What a genius idea!