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Illumination vs Illumining - What's the difference?

illumination | illumining |

As nouns the difference between illumination and illumining

is that illumination is the act of illuminating, or supplying with light; the state of being illuminated while illumining is illumination.

As a verb illumining is

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illumination

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of illuminating, or supplying with light; the state of being illuminated.
  • Festive decoration of houses or buildings with lights.
  • Adornment of books and manuscripts with colored illustrations. See illuminate (transitive verb).

    • illumining

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • illumination
  • * (Walter Richard Cassels)
    • And through the rose-coloured atmosphere / All things more lovely and bright appear, / Losing the faintness of earthly things, / And shining with heaven's illuminings .