Gloom vs. Night — What's the Difference?

Gloom is a low level of light which is so dim that there are physiological and psychological effects. Human vision at this level becomes monochrome and has lessened clarity.

Night (also described as night time or night-time or nighttime, unconventionally spelled as nite) is the period of ambient darkness from sunset to sunrise during each 24-hour day, when the Sun is below the horizon. The exact time when night begins and ends depends on the location and varies throughout the year, based on factors such as season and latitude.

Partial or total darkness; dimness

The period between sunset and sunrise, especially the hours of darkness.

A partially or totally dark place, area, or location.

This period considered as a unit of time

An atmosphere of melancholy or depression

This period considered from its conditions

A state of melancholy or depression; despondency.

The period between dusk and midnight of a given day

To be or become dark, shaded, or obscure.

The period between evening and bedtime.

To feel, appear, or act despondent, sad, or mournful.

This period considered from its activities

To make dark, shaded, or obscure.

This period set aside for a specific purpose

(Archaic) To make despondent; sadden.

The period between bedtime and morning

Darkness, dimness, or obscurity.

One's sleep during this period

A depressing, despondent, or melancholic atmosphere.

Nightfall

Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.

Darkness

A drying oven used in gunpowder manufacture.

A time or condition of gloom, obscurity, ignorance, or despair

(intransitive) To be dark or gloomy.

A time or condition marked by absence of moral or ethical values

(intransitive) To look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.

Of or relating to the night

(transitive) To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.

Intended for use at night

(transitive) To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.

Working during the night

To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.

Active chiefly at night

Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.

Occurring after dark

A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.

(countable) The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark.

Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.

The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon, and ending at the beginning of morning astronomical twilight.

In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.

A period of time often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise.

To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.

(countable) An evening or night spent at a particular activity.

To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight.

(countable) A night (and part of the days before and after it) spent in a place away from home, e.g. a hotel.

To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.

(uncountable) Nightfall.

To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.

(uncountable) Darkness (due to it being nighttime).

A state of partial or total darkness;

(uncountable) A dark blue colour, midnight blue.

A feeling of melancholy apprehension

A night's worth of competitions, generally one game.

An atmosphere of depression and melancholy;

Ellipsis of good night

To spend a night (in a place), to overnight.

That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp., the time between dusk and dawn, when there is no light of the sun, but only moonlight, starlight, or artificial light.

Darkness; obscurity; concealment.

Intellectual and moral darkness; ignorance.

A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to sleep.

The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside

The time between sunset and midnight;

The period spent sleeping;

The dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit;

Darkness;

A shortening of nightfall;

A period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom

Roman goddess of night; daughter of Erebus; counterpart of Greek Nyx