Coruscation vs Glitter - What's the difference?
coruscation | glitter | Synonyms |
A sudden display of brilliance; a flashing of light, a sparkle.
* 2001, (2001), 6,
A bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage.
A shiny, decorative adornment, sometimes sprinkled on glue to make simple artwork.
To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam.
* Dryden
To be showy, specious, or striking, and hence attractive.
Coruscation is a synonym of glitter.
As nouns the difference between coruscation and glitter
is that coruscation is a sudden display of brilliance; a flashing of light, a sparkle while glitter is a bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage.As a verb glitter is
to sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam.coruscation
English
Noun
(en noun)- All of these things - the rubbed amber, the magnets, the crystal radio, the clock dials with their tireless coruscations - gave me a sense of invisible rays and forces, a sense that beneath the familiar, visible world of colors and appearances there lay a dark, hidden world of mysterious laws and phenomena.
glitter
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- a glittering sword
- the glittering ornaments on a Christmas tree
- The field yet glitters with the pomp of war.
- the glittering scenes of a court