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Answer for the clue "Relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body ", 11 letters:
shadowiness

Word definitions for shadowiness in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state or property of being shadowy.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shadowiness \Shad"ow*i*ness\, n. The quality or state of being shadowy.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body; "it is much cooler in the shade"; "there's too much shadiness to take good photographs" [syn: shade , shadiness ]

Usage examples of shadowiness.

He found too that her great mass of hair, instead of being, as he had thought, dull, was in reality full of glints and golden hints, as if she had twisted up a handful of sunbeams with it in the morning, which, before night, had faded a little, catching something of the duskiness and shadowiness of their prison.