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Intelligence vs. Brilliance — What's the Difference?

Intelligence vs. Brilliance — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Intelligence and Brilliance

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Intelligence

Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. More generally, it can be described as the ability to perceive or infer information, and to retain it as knowledge to be applied towards adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.

Brilliance

Extreme brightness.

Intelligence

The ability to acquire, understand, and use knowledge
A person of extraordinary intelligence.

Brilliance

Exceptional clarity and agility of intellect or invention.

Intelligence

Information, especially secret information gathered about an actual or potential enemy or adversary.
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Brilliance

Splendor; magnificence.

Intelligence

The gathering of such information
"Corporate intelligence relies on a slew of tools, some sophisticated, many quite basic" (Neil King and Jess Bravin).

Brilliance

(Music) Sharpness and clarity of tone.

Intelligence

An agency or organization whose purpose is to gather such information
An officer from military intelligence.

Brilliance

The quality of being exceptionally effulgent (giving off light).

Intelligence

An intelligent, incorporeal being, especially an angel.

Brilliance

The quality of having extraordinary mental capacity.

Intelligence

Of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to comprehend and learn.

Brilliance

Magnificence; resplendence.

Intelligence

The quality of making use or having made use of such capacities: depth of understanding, mental quickness.

Brilliance

Great brightness;
A glare of sunlight
The flowers were a blaze of color

Intelligence

(countable) An entity that has such capacities.

Brilliance

The quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand

Intelligence

, often secret, about an enemy or about hostile activities.

Brilliance

Unusual mental ability

Intelligence

(countable) A political or military department, agency or unit designed to gather information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.

Intelligence

(dated) acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.

Intelligence

The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding.

Intelligence

The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment.
And dimmed with darkness their intelligence.

Intelligence

Information communicated; news; notice; advice.
Intelligence is given where you are hid.

Intelligence

Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.
He lived rather in a fair intelligence than any friendship with the favorites.

Intelligence

Knowledge imparted or acquired, whether by study, research, or experience; general information.
I write as he that none intelligenceOf meters hath, ne flowers of sentence.

Intelligence

An intelligent being or spirit; - generally applied to pure spirits; as, a created intelligence.
The great Intelligences fairThat range above our mortal state,In circle round the blessed gate,Received and gave him welcome there.

Intelligence

The division within a military organization that gathers and evaluates information about an enemy.

Intelligence

The ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience

Intelligence

A unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy

Intelligence

Secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy);
We sent out planes to gather intelligence on their radar coverage

Intelligence

New information about specific and timely events;
They awaited news of the outcome

Intelligence

The operation of gathering information about an enemy

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