noun [U]
1 the state of being dark, without any light:
After a few minutes our eyes got used to the darkness. * The house was plunged into total darkness when the electricity was cut off. * In the west the sun went down and darkness fell (= it became night). * There is an extra hour of darkness on winter mornings. * Parking is not allowed during the hours of darkness. * Her face was in darkness. * They managed to escape under cover of darkness.
2 the quality or state of being dark in colour:
It depends on the darkness of your skin.
3 (literary) evil:
the forces of darkness
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for darkness is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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