Synonyms for blackness
ˈblæk nɪsblack·ness

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1. blacknessnoun

   Antonyms:
   whiteness

2. blacknessnoun

   The blackness of outerspace comes from the lack of anything to reflect light rather than the absence of black.

   Antonyms:
   whiteness

3. blacknessnoun

   Antonyms:
   whiteness

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1. blackness

   Synonyms:
   dark, darkness, dimness, dusk, gloom, gloominess, obscurity, shade, shadow

   Antonyms:
   blaze, flame, flare, flash, flicker, glare, gleam, gleaming, glimmer, glistening, glistering, glitter, glow, illumination, incandescence, light, luster, scintillation, sheen, shimmer, shine, shining, sparkle, twinkle, twinkling

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1. black, blackness, inkinessnoun

   the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)

   Synonyms:
   inkiness, pitch blackness, black, blackamoor, lightlessness, total darkness

2. total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, blacknoun

   total absence of light

   "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night"

   Synonyms:
   inkiness, pitch blackness, lightlessness, black, blackamoor, total darkness

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1. • Achromatic Color

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1. blacknessnoun

   Synonyms:
   black, nigritude, atrocity, heinousness, depravity

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1. List of paraphrases for "blackness":

   darkness, dark, night

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1. Louis Untermeyer:

   Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars...God, if you wish for our love,Fling us a handful of stars

2. Carol Anderson:

   But for a Black person to do that, somehow that's criminal. So you have the criminalization of Blackness coursing through this thing.

3. Alexander Davis:

   When things are so dark like they are in the deep sea, if you reflect even a handful of photons, something can detect you, and here, these animals are covering their whole [ bodies ] in this ultra-black skin to basically suck up all the light and match the pitch blackness of the deep sea.

4. Feltham:

   Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness. It casts a cloud over the mind, and renders it more occupied about the evil which disquiets it than about the means of removing it.

5. Tanya Kateri Hernandez:

   She was raised by her mother to embrace her blackness in a world that otherwise denigrates any connection to blackness.