Glitter vs Ostentation - What's the difference?
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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.
Ambitious display; vain show; display intended to excite admiration or applause.
(obsolete) A show or spectacle.
* 1599 ,
Glitter is a related term of ostentation.
As nouns the difference between glitter and ostentation
is that glitter is a bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage while ostentation is ambitious display; vain show; display intended to excite admiration or applause.As a verb glitter
is to sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam.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 goldostentation
English
Noun
(en-noun)- Let her awhile be secretly kept in,
- And publish it that she is dead indeed:
- Maintain a mourning ostentation ;