blackness
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
Types & categories
- achromatic color hypernym
- coal black hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 noun
total absence of light
they fumbled around in total darkness
Types & categories
- darkness hypernym
Related & opposite
- pitch-black derivation
- unilluminated derivation
- lightless derivation
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | whiteness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | black |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | ink-black |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | black |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | smutty |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | black |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | achromatic color |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | coal black |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | pitch-black |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | unilluminated |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | lightless |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | darkness |