darkness
Other forms: darknesses
The complete (or partial) absence of light is darkness. If you've ever lost power in your house during a nighttime storm, you know what it's like to be suddenly engulfed in darkness.
There are degrees of darkness, from the complete darkness of the woods on a moonless night to the darkness of a room lit by candlelight. Darkness is open to interpretation, since it's defined as a lack of light. There's also a figurative darkness, which can represent wickedness, sadness, ignorance, or simply mystery: "The details of their adventures would remain in darkness, unless one of them wrote a book someday."
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absence of light or illuminationsynonyms: darktypes:nightdarknessblackout, brownout, dimoutdarkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft)semidarknesspartial darknessshade, shadiness, shadowinessrelative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque bodyobscureness, obscuritythe state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illuminationtype of:illuminationthe degree of visibility of your environment
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an unilluminated area
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an unenlightened state“his lectures dispelled the darkness”synonyms: darktype of:unenlightenmenta lack of understanding
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absence of moral or spiritual values
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having a dark or somber color
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a swarthy complexionsynonyms: duskiness, swarthiness
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This vocabulary list features words with the common suffix that turns adjectives into nouns