Which cannot be more applicable to the going down of the sun than its rising. Shining forth brilliantly sending forth intense light resplendent, radiant Indeed, even 'effulgent' which you claim as a quality more pertinent to sunset is defined as: So certainly there is nothing in any of those definitions to prevent you using them to describe morning light.
Resembling or likened to the morning twilight as preceding the full light of day characterized by (as yet) imperfect enlightenment. 'Crepuscular' is also related to the ambiguous 'twilight'ī.
The light diffused by the reflection of the sun's rays from the atmosphere before sunrise, and after sunset the period during which this prevails between daylight and darkness.Said occasionally of morning twilight.įrom which we can also note that 'twilight' itself is not reserved to sunset, as confirmed by the OED definition: Although dawn, cockcrow, and daybreak do indicate a specific moment in time, I deem them to be irrelevant to the present discussion.Ĭonsulting the Oxford English Dictionary reveals that while the first definition for 'gloaming' refers specifically to sunsetī.
While the phrase "sunrise twilight" appears in various literary corpora, I would be most obliged to learn of any more precise terms. Personally, if I were asked spontaneously without consulting a thesaurus, I would use the word twilight immediately. May a perspicacious native speaker confirm whether these terms can be used to describe the glow of a sunrise? Although I tend to lean towards this word, I am unsure, however, if it may be considered esoteric and could potentially perplex native speakers. One word which seems to convey the intended meaning is foreglow, which appears to describe precisely the glow of light appearing in the sky preceding sunrise. A cursory glance at the dictionary's definition of afterglow confirms that it is explicitly associated with the period after the sun has set. Although the term crepuscular light bears a similar connotation, it carries a slightly different nuance with a hint of technicality, especially in more specialized contexts.Īs discerning readers may have noted, numerous words in the English language refer to the colours of a sunset, but I have yet to discover a term which precisely conveys the same effervescent glow while alluding to a sunrise. On the other hand, gloaming (an exceptionally rare word) denotes a more subdued and faint light, while dusk implies a darker stage of twilight. I've observed that in the English language, there exist several terms denoting the luminous remnants of sunlight in the sky after the sun has set.įor instance, the term afterglow evokes a particularly effulgent quality of scattered sunlight after sunset.
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