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darkness
noun as in absence of light
Strong matches
blackout, brownout, crepuscule, dimness, eclipse, lightlessness, murk, murkiness, nightfall, pitch-darkness, shade, shadows, twilight
Weak matches
noun as in gloom, grimness
Strongest matches
bleakness, despair, despondency, dysphoria, gloom, grimness, melancholy, morbidity, negativity
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Weak match
noun as in concealment, secrecy
Strong matches
noun as in lack of awareness
Example Sentences
“There, in the presence of God, I understood at last how love could release us all from the power of darkness. Our love is stronger than death,” she says through tears.
He and an accomplice cut the power to the surrounding area, creating a diversion that allowed two others to raid the building under the cover of darkness.
Even once darkness has fully settled and night has set in, some students are still in the exam room - finishing close to 10pm.
There’s an enormity in these nighttime shots of cars isolated in the darkness, chasing after the dust in their own headlights, looking so alone they may as well be on the moon.
Russia has battered Ukraine's energy grid with nightly drone and missile strikes in what Kyiv calls cynical attacks that seek to plunge millions of Ukrainians into the darkness and cold through the winter.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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