[
US
/ˈbɫæknəs/
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[ UK /blˈæknəs/ ]
[ UK /blˈæknəs/ ]
NOUN
- the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
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total absence of light
they fumbled around in total darkness
in the black of night
How To Use blackness In A Sentence
- With her pupils dilated to blackness, and spitting vituperation in all directions, the very last thing she seems is sane.
- He perceived they were entering the great theatre of his first appearance, the great theatre he had last seen as a chequer-work of glare and blackness in his flight from the red police. When the Sleeper Wakes
- The disparity seems further exaggerated by the size and blackness of the soldier's hat.
- She felt her mind, her spirit, her flesh dissolving into a nebula of pure ecstasy burning across the blackness of outer space. THE ONLY GAME
- Beginning with Kidder (1924), archeologists have extolled the exceptional whiteness of its surface slip, the variety and the perfection of its hachured designs, the blackness of its paint. The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito :
- From the aeroplane's window is a night-time scene of sheer blackness, broken only by orange spots of the Bedouin fires.
- Occasional low lintels bumped and scraped his head in the blackness.
- Those answers mean a lot, Mosley says, because it's troubling when biracial people seem to bleach away their blackness with European pride.
- So strong was the event that the speedy star eventually will be lost altogether, traveling alone in the blackness of intergalactic space.
- Everything took on a dreamlike sense of unreality, and faded into blackness.