gloaming

Meaning

Noun

1. Twilight, as at early morning (dawn) or (especially) early evening; dusk.
2. (obsolete) Sullenness; melancholy.

Verb

present participle and gerund of gloam

gloam

• Verb
• Noun

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Opposite of

daytime, daylight, nighttime, darkness

Synonyms

dusk

twilight

nightfall

sunset

evening

🌆

candlelight

gloam

crepuscule

evenfall

fall

crepuscle

crepusculum

dark

dawn

daybreak

half-light

moonlight

night

🌃

evening twilight

owl-light

evening glow

afterglow

Translations

crepúsculo

crépuscule

imbrunire

crepuscolo

anochecer

Dämmerung

schemering

crepùscolo

avondschemering

crepúsculo

aube

crepuscle

λυκόφως

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɡləʊ.mɪŋ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: *gloming

Inherited from Old English: glōmung

In summary

From a dialectal variant of glooming, from Middle English *gloming, from Old English glōmung, from Old English glōm (“twilight”). By surface analysis, gloom + -ing. Related to glow.
The OED notes: "The vowel of the modern gloaming is anomalous, as Old English glōmung should normally become glooming. The explanation is probably that the ō was shortened in the compound ǣfen-glommung (as the spelling seems to show was actually the case), and that from this compound there was evolved a new subject glŏmung, which by normal phonetic development became Middle English glǭming, modern English gloaming."