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Definition of Darkness

1. Noun. Absence of light or illumination.

2. Noun. An unilluminated area. "He moved off into the darkness"

3. Noun. Absence of moral or spiritual values. "The powers of darkness"

4. Noun. An unenlightened state. "His lectures dispelled the darkness"

5. Noun. Having a dark or somber color.

6. Noun. A swarthy complexion.

Definition of Darkness

1. n. The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom.

Definition of Darkness

1. Noun. The state of being dark; lack of light. ¹

2. Noun. Gloom. ¹

3. Noun. The product of being dark. ¹

4. Noun. The state or quality of reflecting little light, of tending to a blackish or brownish color. ¹

5. Noun. Evilness, lack of understanding or compassion, reference to death or suffering. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Darkness

1. the state of being dark [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Darkness

darking darkish darkishly darkishness darkle darkled darkles darklier darkliest darkling

darkling beetle darkling groung beetle darklings darkly darkmans darkness (current term) darknesse darknesses darknet darknets

darkon darkons darkrooms darks darksome darksomely darksomeness darkwave darkwaver

Literary usage of Darkness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Leviathan: Or, The Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical by Thomas Hobbes (1885)
"12), that of " the rulers of the darkness of this world ; " (Matt. . xii. ... This considered, the kingdom of darkness, as it is set forth in these and ..."

2. The Practical Works by David Clarkson (1865)
"Under Satan, the prince of darkness. That is his title. The whole world is divided betwixt these two potentates, Christ the prince of light and life, ..."

3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"LOCKE'S OPINION CONCERNING darkness' CONSIDERED IT is Mr. Locke's opinion, that darkness is not naturally an idea of terror; and that, though an excessive ..."

4. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"darkness falls from the air. A trembling joy, lambent as a faint light, ... Eyes, opening from the darkness of desire, eyes that dimmed the breaking east. ..."

5. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1903)
"Feeling of Dualism Between Light and darkness. I thought that darkness and light were kings of two different realms and that at dawn they struggled for ..."

6. The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire by Edward Gibbon (1862)
"Under the reign of Tiberius, the whole earth,194 or at least a celebrated province of the Roman empire,195 was involved in a preternatural darkness of three ..."

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