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Radiance vs Shimmer - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between radiance and shimmer

is that radiance is the quality of being radiant, shining, bright or splendid while shimmer is a faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining; a glimmer.

As a verb shimmer is

to shine with a veiled, tremulous, or intermittent light; to gleam faintly; to glisten; to glimmer.

radiance

English

Noun

(wikipedia radiance)
  • the quality of being radiant, shining, bright or splendid
    • Girt with omnipotence, with radiance crowned. — Milton.
  • (physics) the flux of radiation emitted per unit solid angle in a given direction by a unit area of a source

    • shimmer

    English

    (wikipedia shimmer)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To shine with a veiled, tremulous, or intermittent light; to gleam faintly; to glisten; to glimmer.
  • * Tennyson
    • the shimmering glimpses of a stream

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining; a glimmer.

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