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twinkling adjective [ ˈtwɪŋk(ə)lɪŋ ]

• shining with a gleam that changes from bright to faint.
• "twinkling harbour lights"

twinkle verb

• (of a star or light, or a shiny object) shine with a gleam that changes constantly from bright to faint.
• "the lights twinkled in the distance"
Similar: glitter, sparkle, shine, glimmer, shimmer, glint, gleam, scintillate, glisten, flicker, flash, wink, blink, glister, coruscate, fulgurate, effulge, glittering, sparkling, coruscating, glimmering, glinting, gleaming, glistening, flickering, winking, bright, shining, brilliant, scintillating, scintillant, refulgent, effulgent, fulgent, nitid, luculent,
• (of a person's feet) move lightly and rapidly.
• "his sandalled feet twinkled over the ground"
Similar: run lightly, dart, dance, skip, flit, glide,
Origin: Old English twinclian (verb), of Germanic origin.

in the twinkling of an eye

• in an instant; very quickly.
"the whole evening passes in the twinkling of an eye"



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