The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overlight \O"ver*light`\, n.
Too strong a light.
--Bacon.
Overlight \O"ver*light"\, a. Too light or frivolous; giddy.
Wiktionary
(context dated English) Too light or frivolous; giddy. n. excessive light v
(context transitive English) To illuminate too brightly.
Usage examples of "overlight".
In the world of the overlight, where we are now, there is no such thing as darkness, because the light does not come from a solid sun.
It was a great dark chamber, and for a moment, even in the overlight, it was hard to see.
Elven Mages could come to explaining it was that the Overlight was the subtle energy that surrounded All That Was, the way the white of an egg surrounded the yolk.
He had spent the hours of darkness seated before his Mirror of Air, gazing into the Overlight, looking for the girl.
Dimly at first, but with more clarity moment by moment in the overlight, he could make out the sheltering walls of their landmark.
They longed to be grasping their heavy pikes, three man lengths long, rather than these overshort, overlight spears which would not be, could not be at all effective until they were much closer to the unknown, not yet sighted enemy than they had the slightest wish to be.
For a moment Ossipon imagined the overlighted place changed into a dreadful black hole belching horrible fumes choked with ghastly rubbish of smashed brickwork and mutilated corpses.
Reigner Two and the Servant were emerging into a rather overlighted blaze of whites, greens, and pinks.