brilliance

Noun

• unusual mental ability

• the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand
  • for magnificence and personal service there is the Queen's hotel
    
  • his `Hamlet' lacks the brilliance that one expects
    
  • it is the university that gives the scene its stately splendor
    
  • an imaginative mix of old-fashioned grandeur and colorful art
    
  • advertisers capitalize on the grandness and elegance it brings to their products
    

• a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted
  • a glare of sunlight
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  genius , magnificence , splendor , splendour , grandeur , grandness , glare , blaze