Brillance vs Luster - What's the difference?
brillance | luster |
Shine, polish or sparkle.
* Addison
By extension, brilliance, attractiveness or splendor.
* Sir H. Wotton
Refinement, polish or quality.
A candlestick, chandelier, girandole, etc. generally of an ornamental character.
A substance that imparts lustre to a surface, such as plumbago or a glaze.
A fabric of wool and cotton with a lustrous surface, used for women's dresses.
To gleam, have luster.
To give luster, distinguish.
To give a coating or other treatment to impart physical luster.
A lustrum, quinquennium, a period of five years, originally the interval between Roman censuses.
* , II.4.2.ii:
One who lusts.
* Bible, Paul
As nouns the difference between brillance and luster
is that brillance is brilliancy while luster is chandelier.luster
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (Commonwealth)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- ''He polished the brass doorknob to a high luster .
- The scorching sun was mounted high, / In all its lustre , to the noonday sky.
- ''After so many years in the same field, the job had lost its luster .
- His ancestors continued about four hundred years, rather without obscurity than with any great lustre .
- ''He spoke with all the lustre a seasoned enthusiast should have.
- (Alexander Pope)
Antonyms
* (brilliance) (l)Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Verb
(en verb)Etymology 2
From (etyl) lustrum, from lustrare, cognate with the aboveNoun
(en noun)- Mesue and some other Arabians began to reject and reprehend it; upon whose authority, for many following lusters , it was much debased and quite out of request […].
Etymology 3
.Noun
(en noun)- Neither fornicators, nor those who serve idols, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor the lusters after mankind shall obtain the kingdom of God.
