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Excandescent vs Candescent - What's the difference?

excandescent | candescent |

As adjectives the difference between excandescent and candescent

is that excandescent is glowing with heat while candescent is glowing with heat; white-hot, incandescent.

excandescent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Glowing with heat.
  • * 1883 , , Addresses and Sermons Delivered During a Visit to the United States and Canada in 1878 , Macmillan, p. 164:
    • He will at last prevail, if only we have the grace to recognise Him, to seize the opportunities which, out of these excandescent heats, fly off as sparks from the anvil.

    Related terms

    * excandescence * incandescent

    References

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    candescent

    English

    Adjective

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

    • Related terms

    * candescence ----