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blackness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of blackness

1 a time or place of little or no light

  • strange nocturnal noises emanated from the forbidding blackness of the forest
Synonyms of blackness

black, candlelight, dark, darkness, dusk, gloaming, gloom, murk, night, semidarkness, shade, shadows, twilight, umbra
Words Related to blackness

midnight

blackout, brownout, dimout

shadiness, umbrage

dullness (also dulness), somberness

cloudiness, fogginess, haziness, mistiness, murkiness

dimness, faintness, gloominess, grayness, paleness

half-light
Near Antonyms of blackness

moonlight, starlight, sunlight

effulgence, radiance, radiancy, shine, sunshine

incandescence, luminance, luminescence, luminosity, luminousness
Antonyms of blackness

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 of blackness

dinge, dinginess, dirtiness, dustiness, filthiness, foulness, griminess, grubbiness, nastiness, smuttiness, soilage, sordidness, squalidness, uncleanliness, uncleanness
Words Related to blackness

discoloration, staining

impureness, impurity

messiness, mussiness, sloppiness, untidiness

insanitation, squalor

muddiness, sootiness
Near Antonyms of blackness

purity
Antonyms of blackness

cleanliness, spotlessness

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