sunglow

Etymology

From sun + glow.

sunglow means A rosy flush in the sky seen after sunset. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 90 out of 100.

Why this word is great

SUNGLOW — [Noun] A rosy flush or gold-yellow suffusion of light in the sky seen after sunset, or a color reminiscent of such light. From the English words sun (the star at the center of the solar system) + glow (a steady radiance of light or warmth). Unlike "afterglow," which denotes the broad, lingering wash of dusk, or "sunlight," the direct and declarative force of day, sunglow is the sun's last, most tender argument against the night—a concentrated blush of warmth itself. It is the apricot stain on a windowpane, the molten band above a silhouetted horizon, the precise gilding of a bedroom wall as day refuses to concede. This borrowed radiance, a chromatic proof that disappearance is a slow and tender fading, exists only in the act of vanishing.

noun

A rosy flush in the sky seen after sunset.
A gold-yellow colour, like that of a sunglow.