night|side

night|side
night|side «NYT SYD», noun.
1. the side of a planet, moon, or other heavenly body, that faces away from the sun and is thus in darkness: »

Temperatures on the nightside of the planet [Mars] were very low, dropping down to ―85° F (J. E. Tesar).

2. Figurative. the dark or unilluminated side of anything: »

[Elias] Lönnrot awoke the nightside of the nineteenth-century professional and middle-class mind, represented by himself, and connected it with the prehistoric culture of subarctic medicine men (Kenneth Rexroth).


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