Glamour vs Captivate - What's the difference?
glamour | captivate |
(countable) an item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance
Witchcraft; magic charm; a spell affecting the eye, making objects appear different from what they really are.
A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.
Any artificial interest in, or association with, an object, or person, through which it or they appear delusively magnified or glorified.
(uncountable) Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal)
To attract and hold interest and attention of; charm.
* Washington Irving
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, title= (obsolete) To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.
* Shakespeare
* Glanvill
As verbs the difference between glamour and captivate
is that glamour is to enchant; to bewitch while captivate is to attract and hold interest and attention of; charm.As a noun glamour
is (countable) an item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance.glamour
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Alternative forms
* glamor (US) (Commonwealth-spelling widely accepted across the states.)Noun
- glamour''' magazines; a '''glamour model
Derived terms
* glamorous/glamourous * glamorously * glamour model * glamour photography * glammed up * glam rock * glamReferences
* ----captivate
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Verb
(captivat)- small landscapes of captivating loveliness
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
- Their woes whom fortune captivates .
- 'Tis a greater credit to know the ways of captivating Nature, and making her subserve our purposes, than to have learned all the intrigues of policy.