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.