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Another word for Darkness

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darkness

n.

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.
Ignorance
backwardness, benightedness, unenlightenment; see ignorance 2.
Evil
wickedness, iniquity, sin, corruption; see evil 1.
Secrecy
concealment, obscurity, inscrutability, seclusion; see mystery 1, secrecy.
Gloominess
somberness, bleakness, grimness, pessimism; see gloom 2.

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Another word for darkness

noun

Absence or deficiency of light:

dark, dimness, duskiness, murkiness, obscureness, obscurity. See light

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She stared into the early darkness of a thick cloud cover.
In the darkness, Alex found her and pulled her into his arms.
In darkness again, he dropped his hands.
Darkness engulfed me as I felt his foot kick my side repeatedly.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

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