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BLACKNESS

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Dictionary entry overview: What does blackness mean?

• BLACKNESS (noun)
The noun BLACKNESS has 2 senses:

1. the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
2. total absence of light

Familiarity information: BLACKNESS used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• BLACKNESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

black; blackness; inkiness

Hypernyms ("blackness" is a kind of...):

achromatic color; achromatic colour (a color lacking hue; white or grey or black)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blackness"):

coal black; ebony; jet black; pitch black; sable; soot black (a very dark black)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Total absence of light

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

lightlessness; pitch blackness; total darkness; black; blackness

Context examples:

they fumbled around in total darkness / in the black of night

Hypernyms ("blackness" is a kind of...):

dark; darkness (absence of light or illumination)

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