Glitter vs Glistening - What's the difference?
glitter | glistening |
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.
To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam.
* Dryden
To be showy, specious, or striking, and hence attractive.
The appearance of something that glistens.
* 2008 , Dan Simmons, Song of Kali
(optics) A fluid-filled microvacuole within a lens.
As nouns the difference between glitter and glistening
is that glitter is a bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage while glistening is the appearance of something that glistens.As verbs the difference between glitter and glistening
is that glitter is to sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam while glistening is .glitter
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- a glittering sword
- the glittering ornaments on a Christmas tree
- The field yet glitters with the pomp of war.
- the glittering scenes of a court
Derived terms
* all that glitters is not goldglistening
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- 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.