dimness

[ UK /dˈɪmnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. the state of being poorly illuminated
  2. the property of lights or sounds that lack brilliance or are reduced in intensity
  3. the quality of being dim or lacking contrast
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How To Use dimness In A Sentence

  • What the dimness suggests here is the fading of one age and the approach of a new one, a cultural agon crystallized in these two men.
  • Thus islanded in dimness and the murmur of traffic fading toward silence, one is apt for the ministration. Bernard DeVoto's "The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto," reviewed by Michael Dirda
  • The light of the short winter day was already beginning to fade, and in the dimness the estate looked well-kept. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
  • The woman and man make their way through the dimness of settling ash and sulfurous mist, their attention divided between their destination and the danger and opportunity around them.
  • Without its usual brilliant lighting on the rose-pink marble the alcove in which the pool was situated had a murky dimness. A WORM OF DOUBT
  • The first thing he saw through a gap between the huts was a cooking pot, a grey bulge in the dimness.
  • I could barely see her in the dimness; the grey light beyond the doors had deepened to slaty blue. NIGHT SISTERS
  • Evenings we attacked dinner, surprised at how often we japed and laughed; afterward we took our ease before a stone fireplace, in dimness that burning pine logs made flickery fragrant, and talked more seriously, traded memories, thoughts, and-shyly at first-dreams. Explorations
  • Stephen Pound, the Labour MP from Ealing North, will advocate caliginosity (dimness; darkness) on the floor of Parliament. TIME.com: Top Stories
  • As his eyes adjusted to the dimness he began to feel dominated by the blank stares of the plaster martyrs.
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