Daylight and Sunset

Opposite meaning words

Daylight noun - The first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance.

Usage example: daylight was just breaking when we stumbled out of bed

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Sunset is an antonym for daylight.

Sunset noun - The time from when the sun begins to set to the onset of total darkness.

Usage example: the glow of the western sky at sunset

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Daylight is an antonym for sunset.

full	full daylight	full sunset
normal	normal daylight	normal sunset
fake	fake daylight	fake sunset
perpetual	perpetual daylight	perpetual sunset
Other adjectives: cloudy, permanent.

Though the really freaky stuff starts at sunset, it doesn't end until the sun rises above the mountains, at which point it had been daylight for quite some time.

Source: Daylight Horror
In Silent Hill 3, the game starts off at sunset and stretches over two nights: the daylight portion's spent almost entirely inside an Abandoned Hospital and its Dark World counterpart.

Source: Franchise / Silent Hill
Watching the Sunset: The final shot of the film is the cityscape going from daylight to a neon-lit night scene that looks a lot like the digital world, hinting that we are Not So Different.

Source: Film / TRON

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