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blackness
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[ noun ] (color) the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
Synonyms Used in print (Clayton C. Barbeau, The Ikon....)Prevot came_up `` Take that spot over there '' , he whispered , pointing to a small clump of blackness . (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)They were climbing the hill in the night when the headlights abruptly probed solid blackness , became two parallel luminous tubes which broadened out into a faint mist of light and ended . Related terms |
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[ noun ] total absence of light
Synonyms Examples "they fumbled around in total darkness" "in the black of night" Used in print (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)Or the surging whirling sounds of bats at night , when their black bodies dived into the blackness above and below the amber street_lights . Related terms |
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