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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