blackness

blackness

noun

Definition of BLACKNESS

1

a time or place of little or no light <strange nocturnal noises emanated from the forbidding blackness of the forest>

Synonyms black, blackness, candlelight, darkness, dusk, gloaming, gloom, murk, night, semidarkness, shade, shadows, twilight, umbra

Related Words midnight; blackout, brownout, dimout; shadiness, umbrage; dullness (also dulness), somberness; cloudiness, fogginess, haziness, mistiness, murkiness; dimness, faintness, gloominess, grayness, paleness; half-light

Near Antonyms moonlight, starlight, sunlight; effulgence, radiance, radiancy, shine, sunshine; incandescence, luminance, luminescence, luminosity, luminousness

Antonyms blaze, brightness, brilliance, day, daylight, glare, glow, light, lightness

2

the state or quality of being dirty <judging from the blackness of the carpet, I'd say that it had never been cleaned>

Synonyms blackness, dinge, dinginess, dustiness, filthiness, foulness, griminess, grubbiness, nastiness, smuttiness, soilage, sordidness, squalidness, uncleanliness, uncleanness

Related Words discoloration, staining; impureness, impurity; messiness, mussiness, sloppiness, untidiness; insanitation, squalor; muckiness, muddiness, sootiness

Near Antonyms purity

Antonyms cleanliness, immaculateness, spotlessness