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Shimmer vs Luminosity - What's the difference?

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Shimmer is a related term of luminosity.


As nouns the difference between shimmer and luminosity

is that shimmer is a faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining; a glimmer while luminosity is (uncountable) the state of being luminous, or a luminous object; brilliance or radiance.

As a verb shimmer

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

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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    luminosity

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia luminosity) (luminosities)
  • (uncountable) the state of being luminous, or a luminous object; brilliance or radiance
  • (physics) the ratio of luminous flux to radiant flux at the same wavelength; the luminosity factor
  • (astronomy) the rate at which a star radiates energy in all directions