| Noun | 1. | brilliance - great brightness; "a glare of sunlight"; "the flowers were a blaze of color"brightness - the location of a visual perception along the black-to-white continuum | |
| 2. | brilliance - the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grandelegance - a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste eclat - brilliant or conspicuous success or effect; "the eclat of a great achievement" | |
| 3. | brilliance - unusual mental abilityintelligence - the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience coruscation - a sudden or striking display of brilliance; "corruscations of great wit" pyrotechnics - (music) brilliance of display (as in the performance of music) | |