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A state of partial or total darkness
Answer for the clue "A state of partial or total darkness ", 10 letters:
sombreness
Word definitions for sombreness in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of somberness English)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a state of partial or total darkness; "he struck a match to dispell the gloom" [syn: gloom , somberness ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Somberness \Som"ber*ness\, Sombreness \Som"bre*ness\, n. The quality or state of being somber; gloominess.
Usage examples of sombreness.
He went about his work with a deliberate and silent sombreness, like a beast coming out and going in, shaggy looking, austere, stodging through the mud and the muck of the byres, with rain upon his face, and the north wind in his eyes.
Swollen, dark purple-grey skies hang overhead, their sombreness broken by twin arcs of white points: the sunlets which ring this world.