Antonyms for brilliancy
ˈbrɪl yən sibril·lian·cy

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1. brilliancy

   Antonyms:
   fatuity, folly, foolishness, idiocy, imbecility, incapacity, senselessness, stupidity

   Synonyms:
   acuteness, astuteness, capacity, common sense, intelligence, sagacity, sense, soundness, wisdom

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1. luster, lustre, brilliancy, splendor, splendournoun

   a quality that outshines the usual

   Synonyms:
   sheen, shininess, splendor, grandeur, grandness, magnificence, brilliance, luster, splendour, lustre

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1. brilliancynoun

   Synonyms:
   brightness, resplendence, refulgence, brilliance

How to use brilliancy in a sentence?

1. Longfellow:

   With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought: they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under the ground.

2. Dr. A. B. Meldrum:

   Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.

3. Author Unknown:

   Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing.

4. Nizami:

   Virtue beameth from a generous spirit as light from the moon, or as brilliancy from Jupiter.

5. William Penn:

   If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch, indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.

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