Glimmer vs. Glamour — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Glimmer and Glamour
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Glimmer
A faint manifestation or indication; a trace
A glimmer of understanding.
Glamour
Exciting or mysterious attractiveness usually associated with striking physical beauty, luxury, or celebrity.
Glimmer
A dim or intermittent flicker or flash of light.
Glamour
(Archaic) Magic cast by a spell; enchantment.
Glimmer
To emit a dim, intermittent light
"The ocean glimmered on her left like an iridescent pewter bowl" (Elizabeth Adler).
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Glamour
(uncountable) Originally, enchantment; magic charm; especially, the effect of a spell that causes one to see objects in a form that differs from reality, typically to make filthy, ugly, or repulsive things seem beauteous.
Glimmer
To be reflected in dim, intermittent flashes
"Starlight glimmered on rusty metal" (David Drake).
Glamour
(uncountable) Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal).
Glamour magazines; a glamour model
Glimmer
To appear faintly or indistinctly
Hope still glimmered in our minds.
Glamour
(uncountable) Any excitement, appeal, or attractiveness associated with a person, place, or thing; that which makes something appealing.
The idea of being a movie star has lost its glamour for me.
Glimmer
A faint light; a dim glow.
The glimmer of the fireflies was pleasant to watch.
Glamour
Any artificial interest in, or association with, objects, or persons, through which they appear delusively magnified or glorified.
Glimmer
A flash of light.
Glamour
A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.
Glimmer
A faint or remote possibility.
A glimmer of hope
Glamour
(countable) An item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance.
Glimmer
Mica.
Glamour
(transitive) To enchant; to bewitch.
Glimmer
(intransitive) To shine with a faint, unsteady light.
The fireflies glimmered in the dark.
The glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp
Glamour
A charm affecting the eye, making objects appear different from what they really are.
Glimmer
To give feeble or scattered rays of light; to shine faintly; to show a faint, unsteady light; as, the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp.
The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day.
Glamour
Witchcraft; magic; a spell.
Glimmer
A faint, unsteady light; feeble, scattered rays of light; also, a gleam.
Gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls.
Glamour
A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.
The air filled with a strange, pale glamour that seemed to lie over the broad valley.
Glimmer
Mica. See Mica.
Glamour
Any artificial interest in, or association with, an object, through which it appears delusively magnified or glorified.
It had much of glamour mightTo make a lady seem a knight.
Glimmer
A flash of light (especially reflected light)
Glamour
Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal)
Glimmer
A slight suggestion or vague understanding;
He had no inkling what was about to happen
Glamour
Cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something
Glimmer
Shine brightly, like a star or a light
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