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blackness

blackness

4 1.3
How dark a color or object looks
  • noun
  • /ˈblæknəs/
: negrura
  • The blackness of the night sky made the stars shine even brighter.
  • notions of blackness
  • blackness as an identity
  • experience of blackness

During the first month blackness spreads across the whole body from these parts.

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Examples

  • The blackness of the ink on the page was so intense that it appeared almost shiny.

  • The painting captures the blackness of the coal mine, reflecting its dark and smoky atmosphere.

  • And I just feel like if we all just accepted our blackness more, we would just be great.

  • If not for her truth, her Blackness, then for the one she chose to love.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • And this painting is a reminder that my blackness is beautiful.

  • But it is in language that the cultural barriers between blackness are more clearly visible.

    Academic text (1994)
  • The reason he's in the White House is because of his race, his blackness.

  • That's what you come for... you come to celebrate your blackness.

  • It is my blackness that defines my atheism.

  • To this day, I think of death as a blackness full of murmurs and edged with mysterious lights.

    Fiction book (1998)

Synonyms

black
vsblackness
111 1.0

A state with no light, as in the night

measures how dark a color is on a scale rather than naming the darkest
darkness
vsblackness
4 1.0

A deep, strong color often used in cloth or paint

measures how deep the color is rather than general absence of light
ebony
vsblackness
3 3.9

A very dark black color like deep night

measures degree of darkness rather than describing a wood tone
pitch-blackness
vsblackness
1 4.6

Complete darkness with no light at all

measures color depth rather than absolute lack of light
inkiness
vsblackness
1 7.4

A very deep black color or darkness like a night with no light

measures degree of color darkness rather than liquid or stain quality

Antonyms

39 1.0

How much light something gives or how close it looks to white

9 3.7

A very light color like fresh snow

Compounds

Complete darkness with no light at all

Complete darkness with no light at all

8.0

A very strong feeling that nothing will get better and you have no hope

How Black

blackness
4 1.3
darkness
4 1.0
paleness
3 4.3
whiteness
9 3.7

Surface Forms

blackness singular
blacknesses plural

Morphology

blackness = black (transparent) = black + ness

The suffix '-ness' is a standard English suffix used to form nouns indicating a state or quality from adjectives.

Etymology

Blackness comes from the old English word black meaning 'black' and the ending -ness meaning 'state' or 'quality'. So blackness describes how black something is, like the deep dark color of ink or soot.