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LIGHTLESSNESS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Total absence of light

Example:

in the black of night

Synonyms:

black; blackness; lightlessness; pitch blackness; total darkness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("lightlessness" is a kind of...):

dark; darkness (absence of light or illumination)

Derivation:

lightless (without illumination)

lightless (giving no light)

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