darkness

[dark]

Absence of light or illumination

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The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom.

Noun
a swarthy complexion

Noun
having a dark or somber color

Noun
an unenlightened state; "he was in the dark concerning their intentions"; "his lectures dispelled the darkness"

Noun
an unilluminated area; "he moved off into the darkness"

Noun
absence of light or illumination

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Noun
absence of moral or spiritual values; "the powers of darkness"


n.
The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom.

n.
A state of privacy; secrecy.

n.
A state of ignorance or error, especially on moral or religious subjects; hence, wickedness; impurity.

n.
Want of clearness or perspicuity; obscurity; as, the darkness of a subject, or of a discussion.

n.
A state of distress or trouble.


Darkness

Dark"ness, n. 1. The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom.
And darkness was upon the face of the deep.
2. A state of privacy; secrecy.
What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light.
3. A state of ignorance or error, especially on moral or religious subjects; hence, wickedness; impurity.
Men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
Pursue these sons of darkness: drive them out From all heaven's bounds.
4. Want of clearness or perspicuity; obscurity; as, the darkness of a subject, or of a discussion. 5. A state of distress or trouble.
A day of clouds and of thick darkness.
Prince of darkness, the Devil; Satan. "In the power of the Prince of darkness." Locke. Syn. -- Darkness, Dimness, Obscurity, Gloom. Darkness arises from a total, and dimness from a partial, want of light. A thing is obscure when so overclouded or covered as not to be easily perceived. As tha shade or obscurity increases, it deepens into gloom. What is dark is hidden from view; what is obscure is difficult to perceive or penetrate; the eye becomes dim with age; an impending storm fills the atmosphere with gloom. When taken figuratively, these words have a like use; as, the darkness of ignorance; dimness of discernment; obscurity of reasoning; gloom of superstition.

The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom.

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Usage Examples

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.

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