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Synonyms for darkness

noun

  1. Absence of light

    dark, gloom, murk, dusk, murkiness, duskiness, dimness, blackness, shadiness, shade, tenebrosity, shadowiness, smokiness, lightlessness, pitch darkness, night, twilight, crepuscule, eclipse, nightfall, obscurity, cloudiness, opacity, somberness, inkiness, swarthiness, melanism, Stygian darkness, Cimmerian shade, Egyptian blackness, shades of evening, shades of night, palpable darkness; see also night 1.

  2. Ignorance

    backwardness, benightedness, unenlightenment; see ignorance 2.

  3. Evil

    wickedness, iniquity, sin, corruption; see evil 1.

  4. Secrecy

    concealment, obscurity, inscrutability, seclusion; see mystery 1, secrecy.

  5. Gloominess

    somberness, bleakness, grimness, pessimism; see gloom 2.

See darkness in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II

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