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
Idle outside on a warm summer evening and let the inky blackness envelope you.
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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
When D’Silva signaled to turn off the flashlights and thrash our arms around, the blackness transformed into a beautiful cloud of luminous phosphorescence.
—Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 22 Aug. 2025
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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
When D’Silva signaled to turn off the flashlights and thrash our arms around, the blackness transformed into a beautiful cloud of luminous phosphorescence.
—Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 22 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for blackness
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blackness
Noun
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Columbus Police The footage shows the person in a dark, hooded top and lighter color pants, walking with their hands in their pockets.—
Kiki Intarasuwan,
CBS News,
5 Jan. 2026
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Sunny skies by day often bring clear nightscapes after dark, so soak up the starry splendor on the Tucson Astro Trail, which links 12 area observatories and dark-sky parks.—
Stephanie Vermillion,
Outside,
4 Jan. 2026
Noun
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His handsome face is bruised and broken and a black that is unrecognizable.—
Davon Loeb,
PEOPLE,
8 Nov. 2025
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All of the steel is painted a matte black, to blend into the woody surroundings.—
Tribune News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Nov. 2025
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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The ash of the cigarette glows in the darkness of the truck.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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But even still, the doctors are grappling with the impacts of the conflict, mainly through power outages that leave their hospital in darkness.—
Ciara McCarthy,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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For one night, under cold rain and flickering red lights, the noise faded.—
Ira Gorawara,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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On Saturday night in the Pacific Northwest, the Hornets kept their FCS playoff hopes alive with their big-play attack, racing past Portland State 52-24 at Hillsboro Stadium.—
Joe Davidson,
Sacbee.com,
9 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The views are stunning, with dense jungle lining the riverbanks and pink dolphins occasionally surfacing around dawn and dusk.—
Aaron Randolph,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Nov. 2025
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The best thing to fight off early sunset melancholia is to try to get outside at dusk, even for a few minutes.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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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 10 Jan. 2026.
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