The time just after sunset, when the light is half faded, but the world is not yet totally dark, is twilight. If you are between two states, like asleep and awake, that can also be called a twilight moment.
The light perceived before the rising, and after the setting, of the sun, or when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon, occasioned by the illumination of the earth's atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.
Noun
the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth
Noun
a condition of decline following successes; "in the twilight of the empire"
Noun
the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night"
n.
The light perceived before the rising, and after the
setting, of the sun, or when the sun is less than 18¡ below the
horizon, occasioned by the illumination of the earth's atmosphere by
the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.
n.
faint light; a dubious or uncertain medium through which
anything is viewed.
a.
Seen or done by twilight.
a.
Imperfectly illuminated; shaded; obscure.
Twilight
As when the sun . . . from behind the moon, In dim eclipse. disastrous twilight sheds.
The twilight of probability.
Twilight
O'er the twilight groves and dusky caves.
The light perceived before the rising, and after the setting, of the sun, or when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon, occasioned by the illumination of the earth's atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.
Seen or done by twilight.
Usage Examples
For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!
You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
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Other Usage ExamplesWhat's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually.
Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could just not think it's funny. You're just sitting there like, 'Am I in the twilight zone? Why is everyone laughing?' It's such a personal thing. People have such a personal visceral response to comedy.
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
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