fading light
Day's slow departure
Fading light is the diminishing illumination as day turns to evening or a light source weakens.
The phrase evokes twilight, dusk, or the slow dimming before darkness: We packed up camp in the fading light.
Figuratively, fading light suggests decline or approaching end—of life, hope, or an era: the fading light of a once-great empire.
- duskDimming after sundown
- twilightLight after sunset
- dimmingDecreasing in brightness
- gloamingPoetic term for dusk
- sunsetDay yielding to darkness
magic hour · shadows · long shadows · waning · evening · end of day · candle · ember · dying · afterglow · pale · flickering · lantern · darkness · softening · haze · silhouette · golden hour
- dim lighttwilight, dusk, gloaming, semidarkness, dimness
- glowglow, gleam, glimmer, shimmer, radiance
- poetic phrasesonce upon a time, happily ever after, star-crossed lovers, sweet sorrow, eternal flame
- sunsetssunset, beach sunset, ocean sunset, desert sunset, mountain sunset
- twilight skytwilight, dusk, dawn, sunset hues, twilight glow
- faint traceswhisper, glimmer, flicker, trace, hint
fading lightbright light
blinding light · harsh light · high noon · midday sun · full sun
fading lightfirst light
Earliest morning brightness
daybreak · dawn · sunrise · new dawn · morning light
fading, light, fade, unfaded, lights, lighted, lighting, lighter, lightest