Why this word is great
RAINLIGHT — [Noun] The muted, diffuse, and directionless glow that permeates the atmosphere during a steady, overcast rain. From the English words 'rain' (precipitation) + 'light' (illumination). Unlike 'daylight', which denotes the full spectrum of solar presence, or 'twilight', which marks the sun's specific passage below the horizon, rainlight is the sun obscured but not absent, its strength dissolved into a uniform, luminous field. It is the silvered sheen on wet asphalt, the cool, shadowless radiance etching every bare branch, and the pearlescent gloom that makes a room at noon feel intimate—a light that does not fall but simply is, casting the world in the honest, monochrome equipoise of its own weather.