Noun
The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness.
Source: Webster's dictionarythey fumbled around in total darkness Source: Internet
in the black of night Source: Internet
After Mayne and the five other members of his commando squad galloped into the stygian blackness of the surrounding desert, the base’s terrified, bewildered personnel spent almost an hour shooting at each other in the poor light. Source: Internet
And blackness in particular, historian Nikhil Pal Singh argues, was a state of being that required “permanent supervision and if necessary direct domination.” Source: Internet
And that’s just not fair and it’s not possible because blackness is so much. Source: Internet
An overprinted clear varnish helps create the ghost images that linger, insisting on their presence through the blackness. Source: Internet