Crepuscular vs Gloaming - What's the difference?
crepuscular | gloaming |
Of or resembling twilight; dim.
(zoology) Active at or around dusk, dawn or twilight.
* 1999 , J. Anne Helgren, Communicating with Your Cat ,
(poetry, Scotland, UK, North England) twilight, as at early morning or (especially) early evening; dusk
* 1898 — , Book 1, ch 6
* 2001 — David Lodge, Thinks...
(obsolete) sullenness; melancholy
As an adjective crepuscular
is of or resembling twilight; dim.As a noun gloaming is
(poetry|scotland|uk|north england) twilight, as at early morning or (especially) early evening; dusk.crepuscular
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(wikipedia crepuscular)Adjective
(en adjective)page 51, ISBN 0764108557
- That's why cats are crepuscular — most active at dawn and dusk — because mice and rats forage for food during these hours when fewer of their natural enemies are around.
Synonyms
* (l)Coordinate terms
* (l) * (l)gloaming
English
Noun
(en noun)- You may imagine the young people brushed up after the labours of the day, and making this novelty, as they would make any novelty, the excuse for walking together and enjoying a trivial flirtation. You may figure to yourself the hum of voices along the road in the gloaming ...
- I clung to her nipples as she soared and swooped through the gloaming , scooping up insects, and I remember the shapes of things that she flew between, above, beneath.
