brilliancy

American  

[bril-yuhn-see] / ˈbrɪl jən si /

noun

brilliancies plural

1. an instance of brilliance.

   the brilliancies of Congreve's wit.

2. brilliance.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• overbrilliancy
  noun

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• brilliancies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of brilliancy

First recorded in 1740–50; brilli(ant) + -ancy

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

brilliancy brilliancies

GM Wesley So with a Cup-clinching brilliancy against So in Sunday’s finals.

From Washington Times ● May 13, 2020

And that was, I think, really the brilliancy of the film.

From Fox News ● Nov. 19, 2019

At a dinner party, she shines with the “revolving brilliancy that collective approval always struck from her.”

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 9, 2019

“Europeans coming to America are surprised by the brilliancy of our autumnal foliage,” the proud Yankee bragged.

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2011

Bobby’s remuneration from the American Chess Foundation for his sparkling brilliancy?

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Some of the film’s brilliancies are purely decorative.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2017

I wanted instant brilliancies; refused to do the slog of reading books, and saw chess as an art not a science.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 14, 2016

They win more by avoiding errors than with brilliancies, as in the diagramed deal from the match against Estonia.

From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2010

Instead of going through a radio bulb, they go through an arc light whose brilliancies they modify according to the varying transparencies of the sending film.

From Time Magazine Archive

It took no little time to shed these disagreeable impressions, even once the brilliancies of the symphony were cast up around me.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson