sundowns

Day's final curtains

Sundowns is the plural of sundown, meaning multiple instances of the sun setting or the time of sunset: We spent a week of sundowns on the beach.

In medical contexts, sundowning describes the increased confusion and agitation some dementia patients experience in late afternoon and evening—they are said to have sundowns or to be sundowning.

evenings

twilight

Light after sunset

eventide · afterglow · dimming · darkening · crepuscule · moonrise · starlight · nighttime · evenfall · vesper

declines

waning

Gradually decreasing in intensity

closing · endings · twilight years · last days · downturns · descents

Opposites
daily light cycle

sundownssunrises

Light appearing each morning

dawns · sunups · sunrise · daybreaks · first light

temporal position in day

sundownsmornings

Early day periods

daybreaks · crack of dawn · early morning · sun-up · break of day

Family

sundown, sundowning

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