Diaphonous vs Gossamer - What's the difference?
diaphonous | gossamer |
A fine film or strand as of cobwebs, floating in the air or caught on bushes etc.
A soft, sheer fabric.
Anything delicate, light and flimsy.
Tenuous, light, filmy or delicate.
* (Thomas Bailey Aldrich) (1836-1907)
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, passage=He walked. To the corner of Hamilton Place and Picadilly, and there stayed for a while, for it is a romantic station by night. The vague and careless rain looked like threads of gossamer silver passing across the light of the arc-lamps.}}
As a noun gossamer is
a fine film or strand as of cobwebs, floating in the air or caught on bushes etc.As an adjective gossamer is
tenuous, light, filmy or delicate.diaphonous
Not English
Diaphonous has no English definition. It may be misspelled.English words similar to 'diaphonous':
diaphanous, defenceless, debounces, defenseless, defunctness, daffiness, diaphones, deviances, deviancies, defensins, debouncers, deafnesses, diaphanies, diaphonics, dauphiness, defensors, dippiness, defiancesgossamer
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Noun
Derived terms
* gossamery (adjective)Adjective
(en adjective)- The heaven was spangled with tremulous stars, and at the horizon the clouds hung down in gossamer folds—God's robe trailing in the sea!
“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./1/2