nightfall
When darkness descends
Nightfall is the time when daylight fades and night begins—roughly synonymous with dusk or twilight.
The word has a slightly literary or poetic quality: We need to reach the cabin before nightfall.
It emphasizes the arrival of darkness rather than a specific clock time.
Dimming after sundown
- sunsetDay yielding to darkness
- sundownDay's end moment
- gloamingPoetic term for dusk
- twilightLight after sunset
eventide · crepuscule · golden hour · afterglow · dimming · decline · wane · cusp
Light blocked by object
- gloomPervasive dimness or dejection
- blackoutComplete power loss
- obscurityState of being unknown
- inkinessQuality of being jet-black
murk · pitch-black · moonless · starless · shroud · lightlessness · eclipse · dimness
Complete lack of motion
tranquility · peace · softness · lull · repose · restfulness · crickets · coolness
Late day period
- bedtimeDesignated hour for retiring
- suppertimeEvening eating hour
- eveDay preceding celebration
- end of dayFinal hours before darkness
closing time · vespers · curfew · roosting · nocturne
dusk
Dimming after sundown
twilight · eventide · crepuscule · golden hour · afterglow · dimming · decline · wane · cusp · threshold
shadow
Light blocked by object
inkiness · murk · pitch-black · moonless · starless · shroud · lightlessness · eclipse · dimness · nocturnal
stillness
Complete lack of motion
serenity · tranquility · peace · softness · lull · repose · restfulness · crickets · coolness · settling
evening
Late day period
- bedtimeDesignated hour for retiring
- suppertimeEvening eating hour
- eveDay preceding celebration
end of day · closing time · vespers · curfew · roosting · nocturne
- Darknessblackness, pitch black, pitch-black, inkiness, murk
- old time wordsfortnight, twelvemonth, yore, erstwhile, ere
- shades and shadows in literaturechiaroscuro, shadow, darkness, silhouette, gloom
- ShabbatShabbat candles, kiddush, challah, candle lighting, Shabbat meals
- compound wordsbookmark, breakdown, sunlight, breakup, snowflake
- Nightmoon, stars, moonlight, starlight, midnight