WordNet
n. total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night" [syn: lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, black]
Usage examples of "total darkness".
Once again he was surprised by the total darkness that supervened, as if he was suspended in empty space.
He pushed himself upwards with the palms of his hands on each side of the cleft, facing outwards into the total darkness of the shaft.
More practically, the total darkness was very useful to the appearance of nonspiritual spirits.
After staring so long at that fire and the fireworks, looking back to the centre of the bridge would have been like looking into total darkness.
Levi Zendt drew the hours from two till dawn, and as he sat in the total darkness, not even a star showing, he occupied himself with trying to identify the night sounds: far in the distance a coyote’.
Her keys were in her bag, so she held carefully to the stair rail as she made her way upstairs in almost total darkness.
She was tired, she ached, and she was faced with a long night in total darkness.
He extinguished the tiny fire he had lit inside the cave, just in case total darkness was what the man needed.
For perhaps ten seconds Goto Dengo is trapped in total darkness in a water-filled vertical hole in the rock that is not much wider than his own body.
Her lips were dry, and she licked them, staring up into near total darkness.
Before Niall could shine his flashlight inside it, there was a violent crash that jarred his teeth, and they were plunged into total darkness.