Brilliance and Intelligence

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Brilliance noun - Unusual mental ability.

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Intelligence is a synonym for brilliance in genius topic. In some cases you can use "Intelligence" instead a noun "Brilliance", when it comes to topics like ingeniousness, illustriousness.

Intelligence noun - The ability to learn and understand or to deal with problems.

Usage example: high scores on this test supposedly demonstrate great intelligence

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Brilliance is a synonym for intelligence in understand topic. You can use "Brilliance" instead a noun "Intelligence", if it concerns topics such as ingeniousness, illustriousness, intellectual capacity.

good	good brilliance	good intelligence
high	high brilliance	high intelligence
equal	equal brilliance	equal intelligence
common	common brilliance	common intelligence
Other adjectives: natural, true, sheer, actual, real, massive, collective, little, incredible, apparent, greater, strategic, tactical.

Upon meeting him, Dexter voices how upset he is to discover what he would become and that his future self denies his high intelligence and brilliance in revolutionary inventions.

Source: Western Animation / Dexter's Laboratory
The brilliance is that the vampires themselves will try to accuse others of being the vampire (though dwarven intelligence is not so robust that they won't accuse infants).

Source: Artificial Brilliance
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille of Perfume displays a high level of intelligence in addition to his brilliance in perfume making.

Source: Book Dumb

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