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darkness

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  • Royaume-Uni//ˈdɑːk.nəs//
  • États-Unis//ˈdɑɹk.nɪs//

The state of being dark; lack of light; the absolute or comparative absence of light.

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  1. 1

    The state of being dark; lack of light; the absolute or comparative absence of light.

    The darkness of the room made it difficult to see.

    Over everything was darkness and thick silence, and the smell of dust and sunflowers.

    Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.

    Darkness imprisoning me / All that I see / Absolute horror / I cannot live / I cannot die / Trapped in myself / Body my holding cell

  2. 2

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

    The darkness of her skin betrayed her Mediterranean heritage.

  3. 3

    Any space that such colour pervades.

    Out of the darkness came some flickers of light.

  4. 4

    Gloom; gloominess; depression.

  5. 5

    The product of being dark.

  6. 6

    Lack of understanding or compassion; spiritual or mental blindness.

    And now, the prophecy. One will come, the voice from the outer world, bringing the holy war, the jihad, which will cleanse the universe and bring us out of darkness.

  7. 7

    Secrecy; concealment.

  8. 8

    Lack of knowledge; obscurity or meaning or intelligibility; the unknown.

    It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind - as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness.

  9. 9

    Nothingness, vanity, emptiness.

    My own dim life should teach me this, ⁠That life shall live for evermore, ⁠Else earth is darkness at the core, And dust and ashes all that is; […]

  10. 10

    Hell.

Étymologie

From Middle English derknesse, from Old English deorcnes; equivalent to dark + -ness.

Formes

pluriel
darknesses
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