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darkness

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(Inglese)

  1. (uncountable) The state of being dark; lack of light; the absolute or comparative absence of light.
  2. (uncountable) The state or quality of reflecting little light, of tending to a blackish or brownish color.
  3. (countable, uncountable) Any space that such colour pervades.
  4. (uncountable) Gloom; gloominess; depression.
  5. (countable) The product of being dark.
  6. (uncountable) Lack of understanding or compassion; spiritual or mental blindness.
  7. (uncountable) Secrecy; concealment.
  8. (uncountable) Lack of knowledge; obscurity or meaning or intelligibility; the unknown.
  9. (uncountable) Nothingness, vanity, emptiness.
  10. (uncountable) Hell.

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Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ˈdɑːknəs/
Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio
derknesse
Ereditato da inglese antico
deorcnes
In summary

From Middle English derknesse, from Old English deorcnes; equivalent to dark + -ness.

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