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brilliancy

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bril·lian·cy  (brlyn-s)
n.
Brilliance, as of intellect or artistic performance.
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Noun1.brilliancy - a quality that outshines the usualbrilliancy - a quality that outshines the usual  
luster, splendor, splendour, lustre
brightness - the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white
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She is delicately fair, with fine grey eyes and dark eyelashes; and from her appearance one would not suppose her more than five and twenty, though she must in fact be ten years older, I was certainly not disposed to admire her, though always hearing she was beautiful; but I cannot help feeling that she possesses an uncommon union of symmetry, brilliancy, and grace.
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Gradually, I gained rest of spirit, until I had come to see that I was no worse than other men, and that, though I had neither style nor brilliancy nor polish, I was still a MAN as regards my thoughts and feelings.
Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
The luminous part traced on the sea an immense oval, much elongated, the centre of which condensed a burning heat, whose overpowering brilliancy died out by successive gradations.
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