as in black
a time or place of little or no light
strange nocturnal noises emanated from the forbidding blackness of the forest
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Those pinpricks of light in the vast blackness spark curiosity, wonder and awe.
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Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 30 May 2024
In Brazil, like in the United States, blackness is associated with poverty, with a lack of opportunity, with lots of things that are bad.
—Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2015
How blackness and politics will inform each other in a post-Obama world remains to be seen.
—Jonathan Holloway, Foreign Affairs, 26 Jan. 2014
In the midnight blackness this spring after the Jersey Pride returned to port, the vessel’s mate and deckhands described a job-site turnaround.
—C.j. Chivers James Patrick Cronin Elena Hecht Anna Diamond Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 6 June 2024
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Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 30 May 2024
In Brazil, like in the United States, blackness is associated with poverty, with a lack of opportunity, with lots of things that are bad.
—Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2015
How blackness and politics will inform each other in a post-Obama world remains to be seen.
—Jonathan Holloway, Foreign Affairs, 26 Jan. 2014
In the midnight blackness this spring after the Jersey Pride returned to port, the vessel’s mate and deckhands described a job-site turnaround.
—C.j. Chivers James Patrick Cronin Elena Hecht Anna Diamond Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 6 June 2024
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“Blackness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blackness. Accessed 29 Sep. 2024.
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