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. Nizami:

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

2. 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.

3. Miguel De Cervantes:

   Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.

4. 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.

5. Author Unknown:

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

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