Good or great mental capacity; intellectual ability; genius, talent, cleverness; mental quickness or sharpness, acumen. archaic.

Intellectual capacity, mental ability; genius, talent, cleverness, ingenuity.

Genius, ingenuity; inborn talent, intelligence, or wit.

High or distinguished intellectual capacity; genius, talent, quickness of wit. Obsolete in general sense: see 6.

In certain figurative applications of sense 1. Brightness of fancy, power of genius, vigour of thought. Obsolete.

Innate intellectual or creative power of an exceptional or exalted type, such as is attributed to those people considered greatest in any area of…

= iridescence, n. (literal and figurative); also, an iridescent formation.

figurative. Brilliant flashing of genius or character.

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The quality of being brilliant; shining quality, lustrousness; shining brightness. non-material.

Greater than normal intelligence; great intellectual power or ability.

Turn of mind; genius; talent.