Akademik

blackness

noun

1. the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) (Freq. 4)

• Syn: ↑black, ↑inkiness

• Ant: ↑white (for: ↑black)

• Derivationally related forms: ↑inky (for: ↑inkiness), ↑black, ↑black (for: ↑black)

• Hypernyms: ↑achromatic color, ↑achromatic colour

• Hyponyms: ↑coal black, ↑ebony, ↑jet black, ↑pitch black, ↑sable, ↑soot black

2. total absence of light (Freq. 2)

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they fumbled around in total darkness

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in the black of night

• Syn: ↑total darkness, ↑lightlessness, ↑pitch blackness, ↑black

• Derivationally related forms: ↑pitch-black (for: ↑pitch blackness), ↑black, ↑lightless (for: ↑lightlessness)

• Hypernyms: ↑dark, ↑darkness

Useful english dictionary. 2012.