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Luminous vs Vibrant - What's the difference?

luminous | vibrant |

As an adjective luminous

is emitting light; glowing brightly.

As a noun vibrant is

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luminous

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • emitting light; glowing brightly
  • brightly illuminated
  • Synonyms

    * beamful

    Derived terms

    * luminous paint * luminosity

    vibrant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pulsing with energy or activity
  • He has a vibrant personality.
  • Lively and vigorous
  • Vibrating, resonant or resounding
  • * {{quote-journal
  • , year=1770 , title=The Empire of Love. / A Philosophical Poem. , journal=Miscellanies, in Verse and Prose, English and Latin , page=111 , publisher=T. Bensley, for J. White , author=Anthony Champion , passage=Mock their pale vigils, void and vain, / Whether, more curious than humane, / Like Augurs old, they pore / On the still-vibrant fibre's frame;}}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , title=The Singing of the Future , author=David Thomas Ffrangcon-Davies , publisher=J. Lane , year=1905 , page=258 , passage=A vibrant voice in the true sense is of course desirable}}
  • (of a colour) bright