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Crepuscule vs Gloam - What's the difference?

crepuscule | gloam |

As nouns the difference between crepuscule and gloam

is that crepuscule is twilight, dusk (the time of the day when the sun sets) while gloam is (obsolete) gloaming, twilight.

As a verb gloam is

to begin to grow dark; to grow dusky.

crepuscule

English

Alternative forms

* crepuscle

Noun

(en noun)
  • Twilight.
  • * 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 54:
    • Van watched them with the same pleasurable awe he had experienced as a child, when, lost in the purple crepuscule of an Italian hotel garden, in an alley of cypresses, he supposed they were golden ghouls or the passing fancies of the garden.

    Derived terms

    * crepuscular

    See also

    * smokefall * crepusculum

    gloam

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) gloaming, twilight

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To begin to grow dark; to grow dusky.
  • To be sullen or morose.
    • (Webster 1913)