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darkness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of darkness

1 a time or place of little or no light
  • the raiding party snuck up under cover of darkness
Synonyms of darkness

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

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 darkness

moonlight, starlight, sunlight

effulgence, radiance, radiancy, shine, sunshine

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

blaze, brightness, brilliance, day, daylight, glare, glow, light, lightness
2 the quality or state of having a veiled or uncertain meaning
  • the darkness of certain passages in the Book of Revelation
Synonyms of darkness

ambiguity, ambiguousness, equivocalness, equivocation, inscrutability, inscrutableness, murkiness, mysteriousness, nebulosity, nebulousness, obliqueness, obliquity, obscurity, opacity, opaqueness
Words Related to darkness

mystery, reconditeness

cloudiness, dimness, faintness, fogginess, fuzziness, haziness, indefiniteness, indistinctness, mistiness, shade, shadow, uncertainty, vagueness

impenetrability, incomprehensibility, incomprehensibleness

circuitousness, circuity, indirectness

deepness, depth, profoundness

abstruseness, abstrusity, complexity, complication, difficulty, obtuseness
Near Antonyms of darkness

comprehensibility, intelligibility, legibility

brightness, distinctness, self-evidence

certainty, surety

definiteness, exactness, explicitness, incision, incisiveness, lucidity, lucidness, perspicuity, perspicuousness

directness, forthrightness, openness, straightforwardness

palpability, tangibility, tangibleness, visibility

readability, readableness

obviousness
Antonyms of darkness

clarity, clearness, obviousness, plainness
3 the time from sunset to sunrise when there is no visible sunlight
  • letʼs wait for darkness before telling ghost stories
Synonyms of darkness

dark, night, nighttime
Words Related to darkness

dusk, evening, gloaming, nightfall, twilight

midnight
Near Antonyms of darkness

dawn, daybreak, sunrise, sunup

forenoon, morning

high noon, midday, noon, noonday, noontide, noontime

afternoon
Antonyms of darkness

day, daytime
4 an overspreading element that produces an atmosphere of gloom
  • the darkness of that period of my life is best forgotten
Synonyms of darkness

cloud, pall, shadow
Words Related to darkness

fog, haze, mist, murk, penumbra, umbra

midnight, night

mantle, shroud, veil

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