blackness
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3.4
- noun
- /ˈblæk.nəs/
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oscuridad
- Floating in the nighttime ocean, I felt the blackness of the water surrounding me.
I mean, just just complete blackness all around.
- I mean, just just complete blackness all around.
- Her body couldn't hold all the searing light, and then blackness slammed into her.
- And then, you know, if you close your eyes, you don't see blackness.
- And she wakes up and she is just surrounded by this inky blackness and she hears like something is very, very wrong.
- You look into the blackness, put your head in the sleeve, put the sleeve over your head.
- Then you face your second loss and the last thing I remember about fate was taking a high kick, took a sidekick, Boom and just blackness and that was me.
- Indeed, the Earth does radiate a large amount, but relatively small amount of heat into the icy blackness of space.
- So, you know, when you close your eyes, do you see complete blackness or do you see like swooshes of I think I, I just see black.
- It's like when you bring a torch out into the vast night sky, what is revealed like even more blackness.
- Think of our isolation and the blackness of space and think of how precious life is and our own lives are on this planet.
- You jump out into this pitch blackness and my risers got stuck under my left leg.
- There was a falling apart of blackness and absence, and then I was back, drowsy and disoriented, but definitely there.
Examples
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And the Overview effect describes the shift that astronauts have when they see the planet hanging in the blackness of space.
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The hall was plunged into blackness, and Jamie appeared as no more than a shapeless bulk.
Fiction book (1991) -
I mean, just just complete blackness all around.
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Beyond me is only blackness and a single pair of dark eyes.
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A half moon was pushing against the blackness of the eastern sky.
Fiction book (1991) -
Behind these eyes one finds only blackness, the absence of light.
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Think of our isolation and the blackness of space and think of how precious life is and our own lives are on this planet.
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The fires around the city reflected orange against the moving blackness of the river.
Fiction book (1991) -
Look, people have, throughout history, have woken up in the dead of the night, confronted by blackness.
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When I turned off the light, a deep blackness enveloped the room.
Synonyms
534
1.0
A time or place with almost no light
456
1.0
The time when there is little or no light
20
3.6
Low light or darkness that makes a place feel sad
8
3.5
A situation with no light at all
4
2.5
A state with no light at all
Complete darkness so you cannot see anything
Complete darkness with no light at all
Complete darkness with no light at all
Antonyms
Compounds
- Literature
A very strong feeling that nothing will get better and you have no hope
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Blackness comes from the old English word black meaning 'black' and the ending -ness meaning 'state' or 'quality'. That's why blackness can also mean 'complete darkness', the state when there is no light and you cannot see anything.