blacknessnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈblæk.nəs/us/ˈblæk.nəs/the quality of being very dark or an area of darkness
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Darkness & becoming dark
- black
- black sth out
- blackout
- dark
- darken
- deepen
- dingy
- draw
- draw in
- dull
- half-light
- inky
- moonless
- pitch-dark
- shade
- shadowy
- shady
- silhouette
- Stygian
- the gloaming
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Black, white & grey
Examples from literature
- All round the hull, in the blackness, the rippling current bubbled and chattered like a little mountain stream.
- Both Keenan and Frank started, and peered through the blackness.
- In the blackness a faint streak of light showed the location of the crack in the wall.
- Paul's spirits rose with the blackness of the night and the wildness of the rain.
- The darkness is thinning, and the blackness turning grey.