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Genius vs Magnificence - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between genius and magnificence

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 magnificence is grandeur, brilliance, lavishness or splendor.

As an adjective genius

is ingenious, very clever, or original.

genius

English

(wikipedia genius)

Adjective

(-)
  • (informal) ingenious, very clever, or original.
  • What a genius idea!

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (eulogistic) Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art etc.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.}}
  • 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.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * idiot

    magnificence

    English

    Noun

  • grandeur, brilliance, lavishness or splendor
  • The act of doing what magnificent; the state or quality of being magnificent.
  • impressiveness