darkness

Meaning

  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.

Synonyms

dark
A2
gloom
C2
night
A1
🌃
obscurity
27k
blackness
23k
dimness
murk
dusk
C2
shadow
B2
shade
C1
twilight
C1
duskiness
opacity
swarthiness
gloominess
shadiness
evening
A2
🌆
gloomy
C2
haze
C2
murkiness
shadows
B2
wickedness
21k
dullness
night-time
32k
iniquity
34k
illumination
30k
indistinctness
invisibility
22k
liver
B2
lose
A1
lour
midnight
B1
mirk
mist
C1
mourn
C2
murky
22k
nightfall
C2
nighttime
C2
obscure
C2
obscureness
opening
B1
overcast
38k
penumbra
pitch black
pitch-black
43k
shades
C2
shadowy
25k
shady
C1
silence
B1
umbra
Translations

obscurité
Dunkelheit
oscuridad
oscurità
Finsternis
ténèbres
escuridão
noirceur
foscor
buio
duisternis
tinieblas

σκοτάδι

obscuridad
Frequency

B1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈdɑːknəs/
Etymology

Inherited from Middle English
derknesse
Inherited from Old English
deorcnes
In summary

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

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