Difference between Brilliance and Magnificence

What is the difference between Brilliance and Magnificence?

Brilliance as a noun is the quality of being exceptionally effulgent (giving off light). while Magnificence as a noun is grandeur, brilliance, lavishness or splendor

Brilliance

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The quality of being exceptionally effulgent (giving off light). The quality of having extraordinary mental capacity. Magnificence; resplendence.

Example sentence: One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors.

Magnificence

Part of speech: noun

Definition: grandeur, brilliance, lavishness or splendorThe act of doing what magnificent; the state or quality of being magnificent.impressiveness

Example sentence: Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

We hope you now know whether to use Brilliance or Magnificence in your sentence.

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