Splending vs Glittering - What's the difference?
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Brightly sparkling.
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*:It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
(lb) Valuable, desirable.
*1994 , (Nelson Mandela), (Long Walk to Freedom) , Abacus 2010, p.85:
*:Gaur was an example of a man without a BA who seemed infinitely better educated than the fellows who left Fort Hare with glittering degrees.
The appearance of something that glitters.
* (John Locke)
Splending is a related term of glittering.
As a verb glittering is
.As an adjective glittering is
brightly sparkling.As a noun glittering is
the appearance of something that glitters.splending
Not English
Splending has no English definition. It may be misspelled.English words similar to 'splending':
spelling, spelunking, supplying, shaveling, shuffling, scabbling, scuffling, spilling, shovelling, spooling, spalling, splinting, spoiling, spieling, subliming, squabbling, shoveling, splaining, splaying, swiveling, swivelling, saibling, suppling, sippling, splining, scabling, shaffling, shipling, skiffling, sheepling, speeling, spawling, scaffling, swaplingglittering
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* aglitterNoun
(en noun)- Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings , truth from appearances.