✅ Translucent and diaphanous both describe things that you can almost see through.

✅ Translucent describes something that lets light through, but that you can’t see through clearly (translucent fabric; translucent paper).

✅ Diaphanous describes something that is very sheer, light, and delicate. It often describes something that seems hazy (diaphanous clouds).

✅ Diaphanous often describes fabric that is very light in weight, and see-through because of that lightness (A drapey, diaphanous gown).

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✅ Shining describes something that is radiant or bright, either literally or metaphorically (By the time he finished polishing them, his boots were shining).

✅ Incandescent describes something particularly bright (the incandescent light from the chandelier).

✅ Incandescent is a stronger word than shining, and suggests something so bright it may be difficult to look at (The performance was, in a word, incandescent).

✅ Shining and incandescent can also both describe a person who seems to glow with a certain emotion (incandescent joy; Her eyes were shining with rage).

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✅ Fine describes something delicate, especially something extremely thin (The sewing thread was very fine).

✅ Gossamer describes something particularly light and delicate (Her gossamer wedding dress).

✅ Fine and gossamer both describe things that are especially thin or translucent (A fine, see-through fabric; I could barely see the gossamer threads).

✅ Gossamer generally suggests something even more delicate than fine does. Gossamer suggests something so fine it might have been made from spiderwebs. As a noun, it can refer to delicate spiderwebs themselves.

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