dusking
Light slowly fading
Dusking describes the process of becoming dusk—the gradual darkening as day yields to night.
The word appears almost exclusively in literary or poetic contexts: The dusking sky turned violet above the hills.
It can also describe anything taking on the dim, muted quality of twilight: a dusking of the colors in the old photograph.
Poetic term for dusk
- crepuscularRelating to dusk
- eventideArchaic term for dusk
- vesperSunset prayer or planet
- crepusculePeriod of partial darkness
sundown · afterglow · penumbra · nightfall · twilit · golden hour · blue hour · magic hour
gloaming
Poetic term for dusk
- crepuscularRelating to dusk
- eventideArchaic term for dusk
- vesperSunset prayer or planet
crepuscule · sundown · afterglow · penumbra · nightfall · twilit · golden hour · blue hour · magic hour · owl-light
fading
Gradual loss of intensity
shading · veiling · shrouding · deepening · graying · hazing · misting · clouding · softening · waning
roosting
Settling to sleep aloft
burrowing · tucking · bedding · denning · hunkering · quieting · stilling · calming · winding down · retiring
duskingdawning
First light emerging
daybreak · sunrise · sunup · first light · morning
duskingbrightening
Increasing in light
lightening · illuminating · bright · light · radiant