Noun: blackness blak-nus
- The quality or state of being black like ink
"The blackness of the night sky made stargazing ideal";
- black, inkiness
- Total absence of light
"they fumbled around in blackness"; "The cave was in pitch blackness, making it impossible to see without a flashlight";
- total darkness, lightlessness, pitch blackness, black
Type of: achromatic color [US], achromatic colour [Brit, Cdn], dark, darkness
Encyclopedia: Blackness, Linlithgow