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| Main Entry: | brilliance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | genius |
| Synonyms: | brilliancy, cleverness, excellence, inspiration, intelligence, inventiveness, sagacity, smarts*, talent, wisdom, smartness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | acuteness, astuteness, awareness, cleverness, comprehension, cunning, discernment, discrimination, farsightedness, grasp, guile, ingenuity, insight, intellect, intelligence, intuition, judgment, keenness, perception, perspicacity, refinement, sagacity, sensitivity, shrewdness, smarts*, understanding, vision, wisdom, wit, acuity, brains, brilliance, good taste, percipience, perspicuity, sharpness, smartness |
| 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: | ignorance, inability, stupidity, denseness, ineptness, obtuseness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | artistry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great skill in creative endeavors |
| Synonyms: | ability, accomplishment, creativity, finesse, flair, genius, mastery, proficiency, style, talent, taste, touch, workmanship, artfulness, brilliance, craftship, virtuosity |
| Antonyms: | inability, incapacity, ineptitude |
| Main Entry: | gaiety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happiness, celebration |
| Synonyms: | animation, brightness, cheer, color, conviviality, effervescence, elation, entertainment, exhilaration, festivity, frolic, fun, geniality, gladness, glee, glitter, good humor*, hilarity, joie de vivre, jollity, lightheartedness, liveliness, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, radiance, revel, revelry, shindig*, sparkle, sport, vivacity, blitheness, brilliance, colorfulness, grins, high spirits, joviality, joyousness, pleasantness, reveling, showiness, sprightliness, whoopee, wingding |
| Antonyms: | sadness, solemnity, unhappiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | genius |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gift of high intellect |
| Synonyms: | ability, accomplishment, acumen, acuteness, adept, aptitude, astuteness, bent, brain, capability, capacity, creativity, discernment, endowment, expert, faculty, flair, grasp, head, imagination, inclination, ingenuity, inspiration, intelligence, knack, mature, originality, perspicacity, power, prodigy, propensity, prowess, reach, sagacity, talent, turn, understanding, virtuoso, wisdom, Einstein, aptness, brilliance, inventiveness, percipience, precocity, superability |
| Antonyms: | idiot, imbecile |
| Main Entry: | gleam |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brightness, sparkle |
| Synonyms: | beam, flash, flicker, glance, glimmer, glint, glitz, gloss, glow, luster, ray, sheen, shimmer, splendor, twinkle, brilliance, coruscation, glim, scintillation |
| Antonyms: | dullness |
| Main Entry: | glow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burning, brightness |
| Synonyms: | bloom, blossom, blush, effulgence, flush, glare, gleam, glimmer, glitter, gusto, heat, intensity, light, luminosity, passion, radiance, ray, splendor, vividness, warmth, afterglow, brilliance, incandescence, lambency, phosphorescence |
| Main Entry: | grandeur |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great importance |
| Synonyms: | beauty, breadth, celebrity, circumstance, dignity, distinction, elevation, eminence, fame, glory, gravity, greatness, immensity, magnificence, majesty, might, nobility, opulence, pomp, richness, splendor, state, sway, transcendency, vastness, amplitude, augustness, brilliance, expansiveness, fineness, grandiosity, handsomeness, impressiveness, inclusiveness, loftiness, luxuriousness, preeminence, stateliness, sublimity, sumptuousness, superbity |
| Antonyms: | insignificance, unimportance |
| Main Entry: | ingenuity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cleverness |
| Synonyms: | ability, adroitness, astuteness, brightness, creativity, cunning, dexterity, flair, genius, gumption, intelligence, shrewdness, skill, talent, wisdom, wit, brains, brilliance, inventiveness, resourcefulness, smartness |
| Main Entry: | luster |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gloss, shine |
| Synonyms: | brightness, burnish, dazzle, effulgence, glaze, gleam, glint, glitter, glow, iridescence, polish, radiance, sheen, shimmer, sparkle, afterglow, brilliance, brilliancy, candescence, incandescence, lambency, luminousness, opalescence, refulgence, resplendence |
| Antonyms: | darkness, dullness, matte |
| Main Entry: | originality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creativeness |
| Synonyms: | boldness, cleverness, creativity, daring, freshness, imagination, individuality, ingenuity, innovation, invention, newness, nonconformity, novelty, spirit, brilliance, creative spirit, imaginativeness, ingeniousness, innovativeness, inventiveness, modernity, new idea, resourcefulness, unconventionality, unorthodoxy |
| Antonyms: | orthodoxy |
| Main Entry: | smarts |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intelligence |
| Synonyms: | acumen, alertness, aptitude, brightness, cleverness, competence, comprehension, gray matter, intellect, judgment, know-how, mind, perception, perspicacity, reason, savvy, sense, understanding, IQ, acuity, brainpower, brains, brilliance, precocity, the right stuff, what it takes |
| Main Entry: | sparkle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | glitter, shine |
| Synonyms: | élan, animation, dash, dazzle, flash, flicker, gaiety, gleam, glimmer, glint, glitz, glow, life, panache, radiance, shimmer, show, spark, spirit, twinkle, vim, vitality, vivacity, zap*, zip*, brilliance, coruscation, scintillation |
| Antonyms: | dullness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | splendor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | radiance, glory |
| Synonyms: | brightness, ceremony, dazzle, display, effulgence, grandeur, luster, magnificence, majesty, pageant, pomp, renown, richness, show, solemnity, spectacle, brilliance, gorgeousness, refulgence, resplendence, stateliness, sumptuousness |
| Antonyms: | dullness, insignificance, poorness, ordinariness |
| Main Entry: | magnificence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | grandeur |
| Synonyms: | beauty, distinction, elegance, flourish, glitter, glory, grace, greatness, importance, lavishness, majesty, nobility, ostentation, pomp, post*, pulchritude, radiance, richness, show, splendor, style, brilliance, exaltedness, impressiveness, loftiness, luxuriousness, nobleness, ostentatiousness, resplendency, spectacularity, stateliness, sublimity, sumptuousness, swank* |
| Antonyms: | dullness, modesty, simplicity, ugliness, unostentatiousness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | glare |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very bright light, shine |
| Synonyms: | blaze, dazzle, flame, flare, glow, blinding light, brilliance |
| Antonyms: | dullness |
| Main Entry: | gloss |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shine, sheen |
| Synonyms: | appearance, brightness, burnish, facade, finish, front, glaze, gleam, glint, luster, polish, shimmer, surface, varnish, veneer, brilliance, glossiness, silkiness, sleekness, slickness |
| Antonyms: | dullness |
| Main Entry: | illumination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | light; making light |
| Synonyms: | beam, brightness, flame, flash, gleam, lighting, radiance, ray, brightening, brilliance, lights |
| Antonyms: | darkness, dimness |
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