as in dark
a time or place of little or no light
strange nocturnal noises emanated from the forbidding blackness of the forest
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Recent Examples of blackness
Now, embracing chocolate nails is part of embracing our self-care, our boldness, and our blackness.
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Larry Stansbury, Essence, 6 Oct. 2025
Idle outside on a warm summer evening and let the inky blackness envelope you.
—Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 29 Sep. 2025
The pressure and pitch-blackness no longer felt foreign or oppressive.
—Ayana Underwood, Outside, 20 Sep. 2025
But the town’s blackness isn’t just about coal—or, for that matter, about the police abuse Shinhye suffers there.
—Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2025
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Larry Stansbury, Essence, 6 Oct. 2025
Idle outside on a warm summer evening and let the inky blackness envelope you.
—Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 29 Sep. 2025
The pressure and pitch-blackness no longer felt foreign or oppressive.
—Ayana Underwood, Outside, 20 Sep. 2025
But the town’s blackness isn’t just about coal—or, for that matter, about the police abuse Shinhye suffers there.
—Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for blackness
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blackness
Noun
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Dick Hickock was fair and twenty-eight, Perry Smith dark and thirty-one—close in age to their chronicler.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Jan. 2026
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The system will also be able to auto adjust to different ambient lighting needs, ensuring optimum picture quality for daytime or after-dark spaces.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
12 Jan. 2026
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Ariana Grande stunned in a dramatic black Vivienne Westwood Couture ball gown that featured draping velvet straps tied in bows at the shoulders.—
Ashley Hume,
FOXNews.com,
12 Jan. 2026
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Grab it in olive green, creamy white, or classic black.—
Annie Blackman,
InStyle,
11 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The changes also allowed Mingo to step out of the shadows cast by André DeShields and Richard Pryor, who played the Wiz in the original Broadway show and 1978 movie adaptation, and make the role his own.—
Peter Larsen,
Oc Register,
7 Jan. 2026
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In it, prisoners trapped inside a cave perceive the world only through shadows cast by outside objects.—
Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
7 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Why were they drawn into this particular darkness?—
Rebecca Hannigan,
PEOPLE,
10 Jan. 2026
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The resident explained how citizens have been waiting for the cover of darkness to take to the streets in Iran’s larger cities.—
Billy Stockwell,
CNN Money,
10 Jan. 2026
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In the first half, the defensive activity and competitive spirit were far better against the league’s best team, a night after Miami came up woefully short in both of those areas against the league’s worst team.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
12 Jan. 2026
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The night's hostess, Nikki Glaser, brought boyfriend Chris Convy as her date to the big show.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
12 Jan. 2026
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At the Art Ovation Hotel, the rooftop pool and bar offer easy access to scenery, but Sage, with its 360-degree views, is hands down the best spot in town for a proper dusk happy hour.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
13 Jan. 2026
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Grab it on sale in jungle vine, red jam, blackberry jam, Parisian navy, and dusk rose.—
Sian Babish,
PEOPLE,
12 Jan. 2026
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The game will launch in the twilight window for Sony’s PlayStation 5 and Microsoft’s Xbox Series X and S — six years after both consoles were released.—
Alex Buckmaster,
CNBC,
28 Dec. 2025
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Catch an Earthgrazer Generally speaking, depending on your location, Castor begins to come up above the east-northeast horizon right around the time evening twilight is coming to an end.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
7 Dec. 2025
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Why, then, the unrelenting economic gloom?—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
6 Jan. 2026
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But despite all the gloom, there are reasons for optimism.—
Wayne Winegarden,
Oc Register,
4 Jan. 2026
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“Blackness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blackness. Accessed 16 Jan. 2026.
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