Intelligence vs. Brilliance

Intelligencenoun

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

Intelligencenoun

(countable) An entity that has such capacities.

Intelligencenoun

Information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.

Intelligencenoun

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

Intelligencenoun

(dated) Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.

Intelligencenoun

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

Intelligencenoun

The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment.

Intelligencenoun

Information communicated; news; notice; advice.

Intelligencenoun

Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.

Intelligencenoun

Knowledge imparted or acquired, whether by study, research, or experience; general information.

Intelligencenoun

An intelligent being or spirit; - generally applied to pure spirits; as, a created intelligence.

Intelligencenoun

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

Intelligencenoun

the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience

Intelligencenoun

a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy

Intelligencenoun

secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy);

Intelligencenoun

new information about specific and timely events;

Intelligencenoun

the operation of gathering information about an enemy

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.

Brilliancenoun

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

Brilliancenoun

The quality of having extraordinary mental capacity.

Brilliancenoun

Magnificence; resplendence.

Brilliancenoun

great brightness;

Brilliancenoun

the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand

Brilliancenoun

unusual mental ability