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Glamour vs Glitter - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between glamour and glitter

is that glamour is an item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance while glitter is a bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage.

As verbs the difference between glamour and glitter

is that glamour is to enchant; to bewitch while glitter is to sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam.

glamour

English

Alternative forms

* glamor (US) (Commonwealth-spelling widely accepted across the states.)

Noun

  • (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)
  • glamour''' magazines; a '''glamour model

    Derived terms

    * glamorous/glamourous * glamorously * glamour model * glamour photography * glammed up * glam rock * glam

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To enchant; to bewitch.
  • References

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    glitter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam.
  • a glittering sword
    the glittering ornaments on a Christmas tree
  • * Dryden
  • The field yet glitters with the pomp of war.
  • To be showy, specious, or striking, and hence attractive.
  • the glittering scenes of a court

    Derived terms

    * all that glitters is not gold