Difference between Glowing and Radiance

What is the difference between Glowing and Radiance?

Glowing as a noun is the action of the verb to glow. while Radiance as a noun is the quality of being radiant, shining, bright or splendid

Glowing

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The action of the verb to glow.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: That glows or glow. Full of praise.

Example sentence: Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching on and on, one province to the next. With only the stars in the distance.

Radiance

Part of speech: noun

Definition: the quality of being radiant, shining, bright or splendidthe flux of radiation emitted per unit solid angle in a given direction by a unit area of a source

Example sentence: God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

We hope you now know whether to use Glowing or Radiance in your sentence.

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