Synonyms and Antonyms of darkness
1
a time or place of little or no light - He escaped under cover of darkness.
black, blackness, candlelight, dark, dusk, gloaming, gloom, murk, night, semidarkness, shade, shadows, twilight, umbra
midnight
blackout, brownout, dimout
shadiness, umbrage
dullness (also dulness), somberness
cloudiness, fogginess, haziness, mistiness, murkiness
dimness, faintness, gloominess, grayness, paleness
half-light
moonlight, starlight, sunlight
effulgence, radiance, radiancy, shine, sunshine
incandescence, luminance, luminescence, luminosity, luminousness
2
the quality or state of having a veiled or uncertain meaning - the darkness of certain passages in the book
ambiguity, ambiguousness, equivocalness, equivocation, inscrutability, inscrutableness, murkiness, mysteriousness, nebulosity, nebulousness, obliqueness, obscurity, opacity, opaqueness
mystery, reconditeness
cloudiness, dimness, faintness, fogginess, fuzziness, haziness, indefiniteness, indistinctness, mistiness, shade, shadow, uncertainty, vagueness
impenetrability, incomprehensibility, incomprehensibleness
deepness, depth, profoundness
comprehensibility, intelligibility, legibility
brightness, distinctness, self-evidence
certainty, surety
definiteness, exactness, explicitness, incision, incisiveness, lucidity, lucidness, perspicuity, perspicuousness
directness, forthrightness, straightforwardness
3
the time from sunset to sunrise when there is no visible sunlight - Let's wait for darkness before telling ghost stories.
4
an overspreading element that produces an atmosphere of gloom - The darkness of that period of my life was soon over.
