Genius vs Excellence - What's the difference?
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(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.
The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.
Something in which one excels.
An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue.
As nouns the difference between genius and excellence
is that genius is someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art etc while excellence is the quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.As an adjective genius
is ingenious, very clever, or original.As a proper noun Excellence is
a title of honor or respect; more common in the form Excellency.genius
English
(wikipedia genius)Adjective
(-)- What a genius idea!