blackness

Roget category 431

3. Words relating to matter
› 3.3. Organic matter
›› 3.3.2. Sensation

#431. Blackness

noun

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.

verb

be black etc. adj. — render black etc. adj.. blacken, infuscate^†, denigrate — blot, blotch — smutch^† — smirch — darken etc. 421.
black, sable, swarthy, somber, dark, inky, ebony, ebon, atramentous^†, jetty — coal-black, jet-black — fuliginous^†, pitchy, sooty, swart, dusky, dingy, murky, Ethiopic — low-toned, low in tone — of the deepest dye.
black as jet etc. n., black as my hat, black as a shoe, black as a tinker's pot, black as November, black as thunder, black as midnight — nocturnal etc. (dark) 421 — nigrescent^† — gray etc. 432 — obscure etc. 421.

adverb

in mourning.

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