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English Dictionary: blackness by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
blackness
n
  1. the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
    Synonym(s): black, blackness, inkiness
    Antonym(s): white, whiteness
  2. total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night"
    Synonym(s): total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, black
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Blackness \Black"ness\, n.
      The quality or state of being black; black color;
      atrociousness or enormity in wickedness.
  
               They're darker now than blackness.         --Donne.
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