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Twinkling vs Glittering - What's the difference?

twinkling | glittering |

As adjectives the difference between twinkling and glittering

is that twinkling is sparkling intermittently while glittering is brightly sparkling.

As nouns the difference between twinkling and glittering

is that twinkling is a shining with fast intermittent light while glittering is the appearance of something that glitters.

As verbs the difference between twinkling and glittering

is that twinkling is while glittering is .

twinkling

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Sparkling intermittently.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shining with fast intermittent light.
  • The time it takes to blink the eyes.

    • Derived terms

    * in the twinkling of an eye

    Verb

    (head)

    • glittering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Brightly sparkling.
  • *
  • *: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.

    • Synonyms

    * aglitter

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The appearance of something that glitters.
  • * (John Locke)
    • Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings , truth from appearances.