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1
a time or place of little or no light
- strange nocturnal noises emanated from the forbidding blackness of the forest
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- 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
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“Blackness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blackness. Accessed 1 Oct. 2022.
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