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Glitz vs. Glamour — What's the Difference?

Glitz vs. Glamour — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Glitz and Glamour

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Glitz

Ostentatious showiness; flashiness
"a garish barrage of show-biz glitz" (Peter G. Davis).

Glamour

Exciting or mysterious attractiveness usually associated with striking physical beauty, luxury, or celebrity.

Glitz

To invest with an ostentatiously showy quality
"have started to glitz up their shows with filmed backdrops" (Bill Barol).

Glamour

(Archaic) Magic cast by a spell; enchantment.

Glitz

Garish, brilliant showiness.
The glitz of the award ceremony was obvious.
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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.

Glitz

Tasteless showiness

Glamour

(uncountable) Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal).
Glamour magazines; a glamour model

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.

Glamour

Any artificial interest in, or association with, objects, or persons, through which they appear delusively magnified or glorified.

Glamour

A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.

Glamour

(countable) An item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance.

Glamour

(transitive) To enchant; to bewitch.

Glamour

A charm affecting the eye, making objects appear different from what they really are.

Glamour

Witchcraft; magic; a spell.

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.

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.

Glamour

Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal)

Glamour

Cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something

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