What's the difference between lambency and lambent?

Lambency


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Lambent


Definition:

  • (a.) Playing on the surface; touching lightly; gliding over.
  • (a.) Twinkling or gleaming; fickering.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Then it's off  out to treat the world to the sight of their lissom frames, youthful musculature and poreless, naturally lambent skin whose glow seems to reach out and greet the sun as a cousin.
  • (2) And there are indeed nods to krautrock and specifically Can's lambent dance music and to the NYC punk-funk of James Chance and His Contortions , with some of the excitement and energy of present-day London, and as soon as we find out what happened musically in late-50s Egypt we'll report right back.
  • (3) Night has fallen on Volterra, but the stars are lambent, despite harsh lights around the fortress wall.

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