blackness
/ˈblæknəs/ noun B2- The state or quality of being black in colour. · The blackness of outer space comes from the lack of anything to reflect light rather than the absence of light.
- Any space that such colour pervades. · Out of the blackness came some flickers of light.
- Darkness, gloominess; depression.
- The quality of being evil or dismal.
- The state of being of African descent.
- The experiences and culture of Black people.
Plural blacknesses
From the library
From the palace you could see the rows and rows of roofless houses that made up the city looking like empty honeycombs filled with blackness; the shapeless block of stone that had been an idol in the square where four roads met; the pits and dimples at street corners where the public wells once stood, and the shattered domes of temples with wild figs sprouting on their sides.
The door opened to admit a thin, austere figure with a hatchet face and drooping mid-Victorian whiskers of a glossy blackness which hardly corresponded with the rounded shoulders and feeble gait.
Peering through the gloom, I saw the vague outline of a man, a shade blacker than the blackness of the open door.
His profile was half turned towards me, and his face seemed to be rigid with expectation as he stared out into the blackness of the moor.
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