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darkness
noun
1 darkness
Absence of light or illumination.
synonym: dark.
Roget 491:
ignorance,
nescience,
tabula rasa [Lat.],
crass ignorance,
ignorance crasse [Fr.];
unfamiliarity,
unacquaintance†;
unconsciousness
etc.
adj.;
darkness,
blindness;
incomprehension,
inexperience,
simplicity.
unknown quantities,
x,
y,
z.
sealed book,
terra incognita,
virgin soil,
unexplored ground;
dark ages.
[Imperfect knowledge]
smattering,
sciolism†,
glimmering,
dilettantism;
bewilderment
etc.
(uncertainty)
475;
incapacity.
[Affectation of knowledge]
pedantry;
charlatanry,
charlatism†;
Philister†,
Philistine.
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Roget 431:
blackness,
etc.
adj.;
darkness,
etc.
(want of light)..
421;
swartliness†,
lividity,
dark color,
tone,
color;
chiaroscuro
etc.
420.
nigrification†,
infuscation†.
jet,
ink,
ebony,
coal pitch,
soot,
charcoal,
sloe,
smut,
raven,
crow.
[derogatory terms for black-skinned people]
negro,
blackamoor,
man of color,
nigger,
darkie,
Ethiop,
black;
buck,
nigger [U.S.];
coon [U.S.],
sambo.
[Pigments]
lampblack,
ivory black,
blueblack;
writing ink,
printing ink,
printer's ink,
Indian ink,
India ink.
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Roget 422:
dimness
etc.
adj.;
darkness
etc.
421;
paleness
etc.
(light color)
429.
half light,
demi-jour;
partial shadow,
partial eclipse;
shadow of a shade;
glimmer,
gliming†;
nebulosity;
cloud
etc.
353;
eclipse.
aurora,
dusk,
twilight,
shades of evening,
crepuscule,
cockshut time†;
break of day,
daybreak,
dawn.
moonlight,
moonbeam,
moonglade†,
moonshine;
starlight,
owl's light,
candlelight,
rushlight,
firelight;
farthing candle.
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Roget 526:
latency,
inexpression†;
hidden meaning,
occult meaning;
occultness,
mystery,
cabala†,
anagoge†;
silence
etc.
(taciturnity)
585;
concealment
etc.
528;
more than meets the eye,
more than meets the ear;
Delphic oracle;
le dessous des cartes [Fr.],
undercurrent.
implication,
logical implication;
logical consequence;
entailment.
allusion,
insinuation;
innuendo
etc.
527;
adumbration;
something rotten in the state of Denmark"
[Hamlet].
snake in the grass
etc.
(pitfall)
667;
secret
etc.
533.
darkness,
invisibility,
imperceptibility.
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Dutch: donkerheid, donker, donkerte, duister, duisternis
Polish: mrok, ciemność, ciemń, ciemno, szarzyzna, szarość, ciemnia, cień, pomroka, mroczność, ciemnica ... show more
2 darkness
An unilluminated area:
— He moved off into the darkness.
synonyms: dark, shadow.
Roget 421:
darkness
etc.
adj.,
absence of light;
blackness
etc.
(dark color)
431;
obscurity,
gloom,
murk;
dusk
etc.
(dimness)
422.
Cimmerian darkness†,
Stygian darkness,
Egyptian darkness;
night;
midnight;
dead of night,
witching hour of night,
witching time of night;
blind man's holiday;
darkness visible,
darkness that can be felt;
palpable obscure;
Erebus [Lat.];
the jaws of darkness"
[Midsummer Night's Dream];
sablevested night"
[Milton].
shade,
shadow,
umbra,
penumbra;
sciagraphy†.
obscuration;
occultation,
adumbration,
obumbration†;
obtenebration†,
offuscation†,
caligation†;
extinction;
eclipse,
total eclipse;
gathering of the clouds.
shading;
distribution of shade;
chiaroscuro
etc.
(light)
420.
noctivagation†.
[perfectly black objects]
black body;
hohlraum [Phys.];
black hole;
dark star;
dark matter,
cold dark matter.
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3 darkness
Absence of moral or spiritual values:
— The powers of darkness.
synonyms: dark, wickedness.
Dutch: misdaad
4 darkness
An unenlightened state:
— His lectures dispelled the darkness.
synonym: dark.
Polish: ciemnota
5 darkness
Having a dark or somber color.
Polish: ciemność
6 darkness
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