pitch-blackness
- noun
- /ˈpɪtʃˌblæk.nəs/
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oscuridad total
- As the lights went out, the room descended into a pitch-blackness that swallowed all form and color.
Examples
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The cave was filled with a deep pitch-blackness that made it impossible to see anything.
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She felt an overwhelming sense of fear in the pitch-blackness of the forest at night.
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Pitch-blackness.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
534
1.0
A time or place with almost no light
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3.4
A place with no light at all
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3.6
Low light or darkness that makes a place feel sad
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3.5
A situation with no light at all
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2.5
A state with no light at all
Complete darkness so you cannot see anything
Antonyms
How Dark
Surface Forms
Morphology
pitch-blackness = pitch-black (transparent) = pitch + black + ness
Derived by straightforward noun formation from the adjective 'pitch-black' (meaning very dark), so the state meaning is directly predictable.
Etymology
The word pitch-blackness comes from pitch meaning 'thick black tar' and blackness meaning 'the state of being dark'. Imagine tar so black it swallows light — pitch-blackness means there is no light at all.