evenglome means twilight; dusk; crepusculum. It carries an Arena rating of 1437, earned across 11 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, evenglome ranks #321 of 17,140 for Most Whimsical Words, #373 of 17,130 for Most Beautiful Words, #1,288 of 17,124 for Most Sublime Words, #1,918 of 17,132 for Most Betrayed by Its Sound.
evenglome is pronounced /ˈiː.vənˌɡləʊm/.
Why “evenglome” is a great word
The lingering, subdued light that persists after sunset. A learned borrowing from Old English ǣfenglōm (from ǣfen, "evening" + glōm, "gloom, twilight"), revived into modern use after its appearance in the 1869 publication 'Early England and the Saxon-English'. Unlike "gloaming," its more common poetic cousin, or "nightfall," which stresses a decisive arrival, evenglome names the specific, protracted suspension of the day's end. It is the particular blue that gathers in the hollows of a winter field, the last saffron band holding the western hills, and the slow extinguishing of color along a stone wall—a quiet, scholarly name for the world's gentle refusal of the dark.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Old English ǣfenglōm, as the term began being used soon after the publication of Early England and the Saxon-English in 1869, where the word is first listed in this form. By surface analysis, even + glome (“gloom”).
noun
- Twilight; dusk; crepusculum.e.g.“They are like men who have lived always in broad day—who have never seen evenglome or moonlight.” — 1870, Mortimer Collins, “The Chicard Experiment” (chapter XXXVI), in The Vivian Romance, New York: Harper & Brothers, page 95, column 2:
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