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Glitter vs Glistening - What's the difference?

glitter | glistening |

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)
  • 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

    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.