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Glistering vs Glistening - What's the difference?

glistering | glistening |

As verbs the difference between glistering and glistening

is that glistering is present participle of lang=en while glistening is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective glistering

is glistening, glittering, gleaming, shining.

As a noun glistening is

the appearance of something that glistens.

glistering

English

Alternative forms

* glistring (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Glistening, glittering, gleaming, shining.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • 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.