Usually means: Absence of perceptible light; obscurity.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. darkness: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. darkness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. darkness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. darkness: Vocabulary.com
  5. Darkness, darkness: Wordnik
  6. darkness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. darkness: Wiktionary
  8. darkness: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. darkness: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Darkness, darkness: Dictionary.com
  11. darkness: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  13. Darkness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. darkness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. darkness: Rhymezone
  16. Darkness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. darkness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. Darkness: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  19. darkness: Free Dictionary
  20. darkness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. darkness: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. darkness: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. darkness: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Darkness: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. darkness: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. darkness: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. darkness: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. DARKNESS: Masonic Dictionary
  3. darkness: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Darkness: Easton Bible
  2. Darkness: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Darkness (offensive): Racial Slur Database

(Note: See dark as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) The state of being dark; lack of light; the absolute or comparative absence of light.
noun:  (uncountable) The state or quality of reflecting little light, of tending to a blackish or brownish color.
noun:  (uncountable, countable) Any space that such colour pervades.
noun:  (uncountable) Gloom; gloominess; depression.
noun:  (countable) The product of being dark.
noun:  (uncountable) Lack of understanding or compassion; spiritual or mental blindness.
noun:  (uncountable) Secrecy; concealment.
noun:  (uncountable) Lack of knowledge; obscurity or meaning or intelligibility; the unknown.
noun:  (uncountable) Nothingness, vanity, emptiness.
noun:  (uncountable) Hell.

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