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Definition of "twilight zone" []

  • An area of ambiguity between two distinct states or conditions: a twilight zone between good and evil. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "twilight zone" in a sentence
  • "He was actually in a kind of twilight zone between respectability and bumhood."
  • "Like the mystic’s eternity, or the shaman’s ecstasy, the surrealist roams the twilight zone between waking and subliminal mind, a place he calls ethernity."