Darkness. literal and figurative.

figurative. Want of intellectual or moral perception; delusion, ignorance; folly, recklessness.

darkness.

Lack of spiritual or intellectual enlightenment; ignorance.

Obscuration, confusion; = obfuscation, n.

Astronomy. The concealment of a celestial object by another; occultation, eclipse. In later use also (more generally): the action of obscuring…

dense darkness (of ignorance, etc.).

The state or condition of being involved in physical, intellectual, or moral darkness.

Blindfolded condition.