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

Usage examples of blackness.

Jose was watching the figure of Alfredo Morales, the man from the Argentine, as it disappeared amid the thickening blackness of the wood.

Blackness of the areaway gave him a chance for a quick survey of the street.

He, too, was garbed in the same black blackness as the flesh of the horse, as if he had stepped from some Avernal lake and its waters clung to him, becoming satin, and metal.

Then out of the blackness the face of the servant in the bauta came towards him.

Anakin could see them now, the silver dots taking on recognizable shape, transforming into Naboo starfighters, spread out against the blackness, approaching the larger, blockier form of the Federation battleship.

Its innocently white face, wreathed with snowy cirri and showing no trace of the ice ring or the catastrophe, gently swam through the void, pushing the blackness and the pale dust of the stars out of the frame of the screen.

The steam from bowls of couscous and stews of mutton and vegetables curled up to join the thin smoke that made a light curtain about this fantasia, and from time to time, with a shrill cry of exultation, a half-naked form, all gleaming eyes and teeth and polished bronze-hued limbs, rushed out of the blackness beyond the fire, leaped through the tongues of flame and vanished like a spectre into the embrace of the night.

Turning as they heard his defy, the crooks saw The Shadow, wheeling in from the blackness outside the loading yard, into the glow of lights from along the truck platform.

High over its jagged rim huge ravens flapped and croaked, and vague whirrings in the unseen depths told of bats or urhags or less mentionable presences haunting the endless blackness.

And, to Domini, at any rate, it seemed as if the depth, height, space, colour, mystery and calm--yes, even the calm --which were above, around and beneath them, had been placed there by hidden hands as a setting for their encounter, even as the abrupt pageant of the previous day, into which the train had emerged from the blackness of the tunnel, had surely been created as a frame for the face which had looked upon her as if out of the heart of the sun.

The hair also became of midnight blackness, and gummed up into elflocks of fantastic shape and effect.

According to the custom of the scryers she daubed the oil into the hollows of her eyepits, coating the scars with concealing blackness.

Here was himself in absurd green-striped nightshirt here was Miranda in white lace-trimmed nightgown once belonging to a daughter of Doctor Fearnaught here was utter engulfing blackness where people could speak from their hearts.

I opened the door into the elm-arched blackness a gust of insufferably foetid wind almost flung me prostrate.

Chapter 4 Stars hung like tiny, vivid lanterns in the blackness above the lonely Galilean terrain.