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Candent vs Candescent - What's the difference?

candent | candescent |

As adjectives the difference between candent and candescent

is that candent is glowing as a result of its high temperature; incandescent, glowing with heat while candescent is glowing with heat; white-hot, incandescent.

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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    candescent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • glowing with heat; white-hot, incandescent