different between dinginess vs dusk

English

Etymology

dingy +? -ness

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?nd??n?s/

Noun

dinginess (usually uncountable, plural dinginesses)

1. The state or quality of being dingy.
   • 1844, Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman & Hall, Chapter Four, p. 34,^[1]

     His nether garments were of a blueish gray—violent in its colours once, but sobered now by age and dinginess—and were so stretched and strained in a tough conflict between his braces and his straps, that they appeared every moment in danger of flying asunder at the knees.

   • 1875, Henry James, A Passionate Pilgrim, Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., Chapter 2, p. 110,^[2]

     He was a pitiful image of shabby gentility and the dinginess of “reduced circumstances.”

   • 1918, Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons, Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., Chapter 31, p. 437,^[3]

     The streets were thunderous; a vast energy heaved under the universal coating of dinginess.

English

Etymology

From Middle English dosk, duske (“dusky”, adj.), from Old English dox (“dark, swarthy”), from Proto-Germanic *duskaz (“dark, smoky”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?uh?s- (compare Old Irish donn (“dark”), Latin fuscus (“dark, dusky”), Sanskrit ???? (dh?sara, “dust-colored”)), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ewh?- (“smoke, mist, haze”). More at dye. Related to dust.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?sk/
• Rhymes: -?sk

Noun

dusk (countable and uncountable, plural dusks)

1. A period of time at the end of day when the sun is below the horizon but before the full onset of night, especially the darker part of twilight.
2. A darkish colour.

   • Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin.

3. The condition of being dusky; duskiness

Synonyms

• (period of time): evenfall, nightfall, smokefall, vespers; see also Thesaurus:dusk

Antonyms

• (period of time): dawn, daybreak; see also Thesaurus:dawn

Hypernyms

• (period of time): twilight; see also Thesaurus:twilight

Hyponyms

• astronomical dusk
• civil dusk
• nautical dusk

Translations

See also

• (times of day) time of day; dawn, morning, noon/midday, afternoon, dusk, evening, night, midnight ^{(Category: en:Times of day)}

Verb

dusk (third-person singular simple present dusks, present participle dusking, simple past and past participle dusked)

1. (intransitive) To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.
   • 1936, Alfred Edward Housman, More Poems, XXXIII, lines 25-27

     I see the air benighted
     And all the dusking dales,
     And lamps in England lighted,

2. (transitive) To make dusk.

   • After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the Moone must needs be under the earth.

Translations

Adjective

dusk (comparative dusker, superlative duskest)

1. Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.

See also

• dusk at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• skud

Middle English

Adjective

dusk

1. Alternative form of dosk