blackness Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
    inkiness; black.
  2. noun total absence of light
    black; lightlessness; pitch blackness; total darkness.
    • they fumbled around in total darkness
    • in the black of night

WordNet


Black"ness noun
Definitions
  1. The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness.
    They're darker now than blackness. Donne.

Webster 1913