blackness
/ˈblaknəs
/noun [mass noun]
1The property or quality of being black in colour: it restores grey hair to blackness...
- The ring's low height and shiny blackness suggest an experimental apparatus.
- The disparity seems further exaggerated by the size and blackness of the soldier's hat.
- These three mezzotints have a gorgeous inky blackness out of which roofs in his typical style are all but subsumed.
1.1Complete darkness; the absence of any light: the entire house was plunged into pitch blackness
2The fact or state of belonging to any human group having dark-coloured skin: my experiences have made me far more aware of my blackness than ever before she holds that position not because of her blackness, but her effectiveness
2.1The quality or character associated with black people: the blackness of his poetry is an inextricable aspect of his subject matter
3A state characterized by despair or depression: there is a little hope amid the blackness of his life the absolute depths of blackness and morbidity...
- As their words evoke the McCarthy era, we are reminded of the blackness of the postwar period.
- The shades of gray in their relationship make the blackness of her home life seem overdone.
- He struggled against the blackness that shrouded his mind.
3.1 archaic A state or condition of being evil or wicked: the blackness of the human heart through the atrocities of war