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Glistening vs Shimmery - What's the difference?

glistening | shimmery |

As a verb glistening

is .

As a noun glistening

is the appearance of something that glistens.

As an adjective shimmery is

appearing to shimmer, glistening.

glistening

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The appearance of something that glistens.
  • * 2008 , Dan Simmons, Song of Kali
  • My eyes had adjusted to the faint starlight and I could make out pale glistenings and white glow of bones which had worked their way free of clinging flesh.
  • (optics) A fluid-filled microvacuole within a lens.
  • shimmery

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Appearing to shimmer, glistening.
  • * 1957 , Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
  • And then, far off, around a curve of silver track, comes the trolley, balanced on four small steel-blue wheels, and it is painted the color of tangerines. Epaulets of shimmery brass cover it and pipings of gold

    Derived terms

    * shimmeriness

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