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Noun: blackness  blak-nus
  1. The quality or state of the achromatic colour of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
    - black, inkiness
     
  2. Total absence of light
    "they fumbled around in blackness";
    - total darkness, lightlessness, pitch blackness, black

Type of: achromatic color [US], achromatic colour [Brit, Cdn], dark, darkness

Encyclopedia: Blackness, Linlithgow

Nearest

blackly
blackmail
blackmailer
black-marked
black-market
blackmouth bass
black-necked cobra
black-necked grebe
black-necked stilt
black-necked stork
blackness
blackout
blackpoll
Blackpool
Blacksburg
blackseed
black-seeded
Blackshirt
blacksmith
blacksnake
black-stem spleenwort