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Definition of Semidarkness
1. Noun. Partial darkness.
Specialized synonyms: Cloudiness, Overcast, Shade, Shadiness, Shadowiness, Dimness, Duskiness, Gloom, Somberness, Sombreness, Obscureness, Obscurity
Derivative terms: Semidark
Definition of Semidarkness
1. Noun. Partial or near darkness, dimness, twilight. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Semidarkness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Semidarkness
Literary usage of Semidarkness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1915)
"The haymow was in semidarkness. The rain now began to shoot through the cracks
around the window in such sheets that I left my position, and, creeping over ..."
2. History of Art by Elie Faure (1921)
"ANCIENT ART pretty closely reserved for the nation, and beyond which everything,
for them, was legends, semidarkness, and confusion. ..."
3. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1911)
"They were kept at room temperature in semidarkness during the day and complete
darkness at night. Without exception the flies emerged from the pupa cases in ..."
4. The Best Short Stories of ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story edited by Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1922)
"Into the semidarkness of the room where she was came her husband. That night she
had determined, as women will, upon a final test. ..."
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