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Candent vs Cadent - What's the difference?

candent | cadent |

As adjectives the difference between candent and cadent

is that candent is glowing as a result of its high temperature; incandescent, glowing with heat while cadent is falling.

candent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Glowing as a result of its high temperature; incandescent, glowing with heat.
  • * 1958 , Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar :
    • beneath them also flowered, like some immense coloured crystal, a semicircle of lake water, candent and faithful as a magic lantern to the startled images of fish scattering and reforming with movements of surprise, curiosity, perhaps even pleasure.
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    cadent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Falling.
    • The 3rd, 6th, 9th and 12th houses in Astrology are considered cadent houses.

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