| Main Entry: | brilliance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | genius |
| Synonyms: | brilliancy, cleverness, excellence, inspiration, intelligence, inventiveness, sagacity, smartness, smarts, talent, wisdom |
| Main Entry: | brilliance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brightness |
| Synonyms: | blaze, brilliancy, effulgence, glitter, glow, luminosity, luster, radiance, shine, sparkle |
| Main Entry: | brilliance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | splendor |
| Synonyms: | brilliancy, glory, grandeur, grandness, magnificence, radiance, resplendence, resplendency |
| Main Entry: | acumen |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to understand and reason |
| Synonyms: | acuity, acuteness, astuteness, awareness, brains, brilliance, cleverness, comprehension, cunning, discernment, discrimination, farsightedness, good taste, grasp, guile, ingenuity, insight, intellect, intelligence, intuition, judgment, keenness, perception, percipience, perspicacity, perspicuity, refinement, sagacity, sensitivity, sharpness, shrewdness, smartness, smarts, understanding, vision, wisdom, wit |
| Notes: | acumen suggests that keenness relates to a person's mind, whereas acuity suggests that it relates to a person's performance; acumen is something that a person has, whereas acuity is something that a person displays |
| Antonyms: | denseness, ignorance, inability, ineptness, obtuseness, stupidity |
| Main Entry: | artistry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great skill in creative endeavors |
| Synonyms: | ability, accomplishment, artfulness, brilliance, craftship, creativity, finesse, flair, genius, mastery, proficiency, style, talent, taste, touch, virtuosity, workmanship |
| Antonyms: | inability, incapacity, ineptitude |
| Main Entry: | blaze |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flash of light |
| Synonyms: | beam, brilliance, burst, flare, glare, gleam, glitter, glow, radiance |
| Main Entry: | gaiety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happiness, celebration |
| Synonyms: | animation, blitheness, brightness, brilliance, cheer, color, colorfulness, conviviality, effervescence, elation, entertainment, exhilaration, festivity, frolic, fun, geniality, gladness, glee, glitter, good humor, grins, high spirits, hilarity, joie de vivre, jollity, joviality, joyousness, lightheartedness, liveliness, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, pleasantness, radiance, revel, reveling, revelry, shindig*, showiness, sparkle, sport, sprightliness, vivacity, whoopee, wingding |
| Antonyms: | sadness, solemnity, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | genius |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gift of high intellect |
| Synonyms: | Einstein, ability, accomplishment, acumen, acuteness, adept, aptitude, aptness, astuteness, bent, brain, brilliance, capability, capacity, creativity, discernment, endowment, expert, faculty, flair, grasp, head, imagination, inclination, ingenuity, inspiration, intelligence, inventiveness, knack, mature, originality, percipience, perspicacity, power, precocity, prodigy, propensity, prowess, reach, sagacity, superability, talent, turn, understanding, virtuoso, wisdom |
| Antonyms: | idiot, imbecile |
| Main Entry: | glare |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very bright light, shine |
| Synonyms: | blaze, blinding light, brilliance, dazzle, flame, flare, glow |
| Antonyms: | dullness |
| Main Entry: | gleam |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brightness, sparkle |
| Synonyms: | beam, brilliance, coruscation, flash, flicker, glance, glim, glimmer, glint, glitz, gloss, glow, luster, ray, scintillation, sheen, shimmer, splendor, twinkle |
| Antonyms: | dullness |
