Brilliance and Reflection

Brilliance

Brilliance noun - The quality or state of having or giving off light.

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Reflection and brilliance are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Reflection" instead a noun "Brilliance".

Reflection noun - A briefly expressed opinion.

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Brilliance and reflection are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Brilliance" instead a noun "Reflection".

good	good brilliance	good reflection
true	true brilliance	true reflection
obvious	obvious brilliance	obvious reflection
real	real brilliance	real reflection
Other adjectives: little, beautiful, broken, further, literal.

Appropriate on multiple levels, in that it's deliberately stolen from a speech on the universality of theft — and Kinbote, too, seems to be trying to steal his own 'pale fire' by reflection from the brilliance of John Shade.

Source: Literature / Pale Fire
Fridge Brilliance: if Scott can see a reflection [of a reflection [of a reflection]] of an object, he only needs to aim directly at that reflection, because his beam follows (backwards) the trajectory of the light beams which allowed him to see the object in the first place.

Source: Pinball Projectile

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