Crepuscular vs Twilight - What's the difference?
crepuscular | twilight |
Of or resembling twilight; dim.
(zoology) Active at or around dusk, dawn or twilight.
* 1999 , J. Anne Helgren, Communicating with Your Cat ,
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.
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The time when this light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.
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*: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.
Pertaining to or resembling 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
English
(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)twilight
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* evenfall, eventide, gloamingCoordinate terms
* evening * golden hour * nightfall * sundownHyponyms
* dawn * duskDerived terms
* astronomical twilight * civil twilight * nautical twilight * twilightish * twilighty * twilight years * twilight zoneAdjective
(-)- O’er the twilight groves and dusky caves. —(Alexander Pope).