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Crepuscular vs Twilight - What's the difference?

crepuscular | twilight |

Crepuscular is a see also of twilight.


As adjectives the difference between crepuscular and twilight

is that crepuscular is of or resembling twilight; dim while twilight is pertaining to or resembling twilight.

As a noun twilight is

the soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.

crepuscular

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or resembling twilight; dim.
  • (zoology) Active at or around dusk, dawn or twilight.
  • * 1999 , J. Anne Helgren, Communicating with Your Cat , 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)

    twilight

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.
  • :
  • The time when this light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.
  • :
  • *
  • *:At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
  • (lb) The time when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon.
  • Any faint light through which something is seen; an in-between or fading condition.
  • *(John Locke) (1632-1705)
  • *:The twilight of probability.
  • Synonyms

    * evenfall, eventide, gloaming

    Coordinate terms

    * evening * golden hour * nightfall * sundown

    Hyponyms

    * dawn * dusk

    Derived terms

    * astronomical twilight * civil twilight * nautical twilight * twilightish * twilighty * twilight years * twilight zone

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Pertaining to or resembling twilight.
  • O’er the twilight groves and dusky caves. —(Alexander Pope).

    See also

    * crepuscular