An adjective describing that which loves the shade, whether person, plant or otherwise, from the Latin, umbra, for shade and related to other derivatives, such as umbraphile, one who loves eclipses. Another is umbrosous, which means covered in shadow, while umbra, penumbra and antumbra, describe three distinct parts of a shadow, created by any light source after impinging on an opaque object, such as the sun shining across the moon, the umbra being the darkest.
umbra, penumbra and antumbra
Darker and damper: fungi generally only flourish in the shade
Fungi, ferns, and various other plants, and indeed anyone seeking shelter from the hot sun might come under this category, but wanting to remain in the literal or metaphorical shadows can have shadier, darker connotations. Fictional vampires of course, must stay out of the light in the shade, but ironically cast no shadow of their own.
Shady character: Nosferatu
While such lesser known words aren’t really the stuff of song lyrics, there are hundreds, if not thousands of songs about shadow and shade. Here’s a short selection in which there’s an attraction, or ambiguous relationship towards the umbriphilous:
Feel free to share anything more in relation to the shadowy context of umbriphilous, whether in music or wider culture, such as from film, art, or other contexts, in comments below.
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