all-night vs twilight

all-night

adj
  • Lasting throughout the whole night (or most of it) 

twilight

adj
  • Pertaining to or resembling twilight; faintly illuminated; obscure. 

noun
  • Any faint light through which something is seen; an in-between or fading condition. 

  • The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth. 

  • The time when this light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness. 

  • The time when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon. 

verb
  • To illuminate faintly. 

How often have the words all-night and twilight occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )