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blackness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | black, inkiness |
| Type of | achromatic colour, achromatic color |
| Has types | soot black, coal black, pitch black, sable, ebony, jet black |
| Derivation | black |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | black, lightlessness, pitch blackness, total darkness |
| Type of | darkness, dark |
| Derivation | black |
Examples of blackness
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It is as if they fear blackness is as fragile and ephemeral as a dandelion puff.
From the washingtonpost.com
Platinum would be notable simply for its casting, but its blackness goes deeper.
From the time.com
The blossom turns black and withers and the blackness bleeds back into the stem.
From the independent.co.uk
Only, when she looked where his face should be, there was nothing but blackness.
From the newscientist.com
As I gaze into the inky blackness atop Mt John I can't imagine anywhere better.
From the nzherald.co.nz
When I was a kid, Hip-Hop was really good at showing a kaleidoscope of blackness.
From the theatlantic.com
Neal said Jackson's changes were not to deny blackness, nor to become more white.
From the cnn.com
The duo's office bivouacs on a narrow, receding platform, suspended in blackness.
From the washingtonpost.com
For ten years no one officially questioned the Malones'self-proclaimed blackness.
From the time.com
- Black: the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
- Total darkness: total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night"
- Blackness is the degree to which an individual has, expresses, or acknowledges their ancestral, physical, cultural, and social ties to Black people of African descent.
- In typography, type color refers to the weight or boldness of a typeface and is used by designers and typographers to describe the visual tone of a mass of text on a page. The type color of a particular typeface affects the amount of ink on the page, also known as its blackness. ...
- The state, property or quality of being black; The result or product of being black
- The apparent darkness of type as it appears on the page. Blackness depends on the boardness of the parts of the letter (boldness), as well as on the x-height and set.
