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Definition of blackness : The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness.

Synonyms:

lightlessness, pitch blackness, black, blackamoor, total darkness, negritude, murkiness

bane, vice, detriment, malfeasance, disadvantage, evil, wrongness, turpitude, inadvisability, unpleasantness, badness, baseness, depravity

obscurity, gloominess, shadow, somberness, duskiness, inkiness, dreariness, cloudiness

evildoing, sinfulness, criminality, impropriety, immorality, sadism, degeneration, damnability, reprehensibleness, blameworthiness, perverseness, indecency, obnoxiousness, corruption, wickedness, sinisterness, perversion, villainousness, iniquitousness, debauchery, debasement, sin, feloniousness

dinginess, dimness, gloom, jet blackness, night, darkness

Usage examples:

• Then she sank into the first chair she could find in the dark and stared into the blackness around her. - "A Tale of a Lonely Parish", F. Marion Crawford.
• Out of the blackness spectres were springing against him. - "A Victor of Salamis", William Stearns Davis.
• It was black as pitch, a blackness which weighed on you. - "The Boy With the U.S. Miners", Francis Rolt-Wheeler.