Definitions for blackness
ˈblæk nɪsblack·ness

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. black, blackness, inkiness(noun)

   the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)

2. total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, black(noun)

   total absence of light

   "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. blackness(Noun)

   The state, property or quality of being black.

   The blackness of outerspace comes from the lack of anything to reflect light rather than the absence of black.

2. blackness(Noun)

   The result or product of being black.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Blackness(noun)

   the quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness

How to pronounce blackness?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of blackness in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of blackness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of blackness in a Sentence

1. Tom:

   We are not the stars in the sky, we are the empty blackness around them.

2. Feltham:

   Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness. It casts a cloud over the mind, and renders it more occupied about the evil which disquiets it than about the means of removing it.

3. Louis Untermeyer:

   Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars...God, if you wish for our love,Fling us a handful of stars

4. Charles Duke:

   The first time I saw it [the Earth], we came from the backside of the Moon and we watched Earthrise. My first thought was, Were a long way from home, but after that, you recognize the beauty of it the blue, the white and the brown. Earth was just there suspended upon nothing, in the blackness of space.It was just awesome.

5. Devon Jerome Crawford:

   Mayor Rahm Emanuel is implicated in the shooting death of Laquan McDonald, this killing indicates the detachment of city leaders from the plight of black, teenage youth on the South Side of Chicago and a willingness by the city to criminalize blackness as opposed to reforming structural inequality.

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