crepuscule

the time from when the sun begins to set to the onset of total darkness from the deck of our sloop we watched as the island slowly faded from sight in the golden crepuscule of a beautiful Caribbean day Synonyms dusk (or crepuscle), eve, evenfall, evening, eventide, gloaming, night, nightfall, sundown, sunset, twilightRelated Words dark, darkness, nighttimeNear Antonyms day, daytime, light; forenoonAntonyms aurora, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, daybreak, daylight, morn, morning, sunrise, sunup