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Beaming vs Glowing - What's the difference?

beaming | glowing |

As adjectives the difference between beaming and glowing

is that beaming is smilingly happy; showing happy emotion while glowing is that glows or glow.

As verbs the difference between beaming and glowing

is that beaming is while glowing is .

As nouns the difference between beaming and glowing

is that beaming is the act of someone or something that beams while glowing is the action of the verb glow.

beaming

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Smilingly happy; showing happy emotion.
  • * c.1846-1848 , ,
    • The honest Captain, with his Heart's Delight in the house, and Susan tending her, was a beaming' and a happy man. As the days flew by, he grew more ' beaming and more happy, every day.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of someone or something that beams.
  • * 1826 , Humphry William Woolrych, The Life of the Right Honourable Sir Edward Coke, Knt
    • The auspicious beamings of the Reformation had indeed shed forth a partial light; but the gloomy sternness of Henry, and the arbitrary capriciousness of Elizabeth, were but ill calculated to give due energy to the new state of things

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    glowing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (wikipedia glowing) (en noun)
  • The action of the verb glow.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That glows or glow.
    • glowing embers
  • (figuratively) Full of praise.
    • He received glowing references from his previous employers.

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