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sunsetting

sunsetting

1 1.7
The time when the sun goes down and the sky gets dark
  • noun
  • /ˈsʌnˌsɛtɪŋ/
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  • Crowley's vision of the gradual sunsetting of the industrial age, there and in several other of his books, is, to my mind, one of the best and most evocative.

So we're going to have a little sunset tea time.

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Examples

  • We watched the beautiful colors in the sky during the sunsetting as the day turned into night.

  • At the beach, families gathered to witness the sunsetting over the ocean, creating a breathtaking view.

  • And where this all leads is to the sunsetting of the Utility User Tax.

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  • Please create a budget that reflects a sunsetting UUT.

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  • If I start my day in silence and with a nice sunset, then every little thing is gonna be alright and nothing can bring me down that day.

  • My computer is set to go into night mode, so at sunrise the blue light comes back on, and at sunset the blue light turns off.

  • The sunsetting of the AWB showed the complete impotence of modern gun control advocates at the federal level.

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  • The issue is that the satellites fly in low orbits, and around sunset and sunrise they reflect light very efficiently.

  • When Yahoo! purchased it and half-announced its sunsetting, the community cried foul.

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  • This is clearly less enthusiastic than how the mountains drip with sunset, but it's key insight, namely that an event of enormous proportion happens daily.

Synonyms

sunset
vssunsetting
259 1.0

The time in the evening when the sun goes below the horizon and daylight fades

is the same meaning but is the key concept's listed form
sundown
vssunsetting
66 1.2

The time in the evening when the sun goes below the horizon

covers the broader process of dusk and daylight fading
nightfall
vssunsetting
65 2.1

The time in the evening when it becomes dark and night begins

is centered on the sun's descent and the ending of daylight rather than darkness start
twilight
vssunsetting
36 2.4

Soft light in the sky just before sunrise or after sunset

is centered on the sun's descent and the ending of daylight rather than light quality
gloaming
vssunsetting
  • Literature
2 9.9

The soft light after sunset before it becomes dark

describes the whole sun descent and daylight ending rather than that brief glow
sunfall
vssunsetting
1 2.7

The time of day when the sun goes below the horizon

emphasizes the full process of daylight ending rather than a single instant
twilight hour
vssunsetting
1 3.5

The time after the sun goes down when the sky is partly light

focuses on the event of the sun descending rather than the following period

Antonyms

220 1.0

The time in the morning when the sun comes up and day begins

29 1.0

The time in the early morning when light first appears in the sky

Surface Forms

sunsetting singular
sunsettings plural

Morphology

sunsetting = sunset (transparent) = sun + set + ing

The noun is transparently related to the process of the sun setting, with a regular -ing nominalization.

Etymology

Sunsetting comes from sun + setting, where setting means 'going down' and it is the same idea as sunset. So, as a noun sunsetting means the time when the sun goes down and daylight ends.