Is darknesses a word

noun

• A swarthy complexion
• Having a dark or somber color
• An unenlightened state
• An unilluminated area
• Absence of light or illumination
• Absence of moral or spiritual values

verb

• A state in which no light can be seen
• A place where little or no light can be seen
• The time of day when night begins : the time when the sky becomes dark for the night

English International (SOWPODS)
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The word Darkness is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends

• She sat in the dark room alone.
• Soon it will be dark enough to see the stars.
• It was a dark and stormy night.
• He’s 12 years old and still afraid of the dark.
• The burglars hid in the dark between the two buildings.
• He bought the kids special rings that glow in the dark.

adj. dark·er, dark·est

2. Being or having a complexion that is not light in color.

3. Sullen or threatening: a dark scowl.

7. Having richness or depth: a dark, melancholy vocal tone.

8. Not giving performances; closed: The movie theater is dark on Mondays.

9. Linguistics Pronounced with the back of the tongue raised toward the velum. Used of the sound (l) in words like full.

n.

1. Absence of light.

2. A place having little or no light.

3. Night; nightfall: home before dark.

4. A deep hue or color.

5. darks Pieces of laundry having a dark color.

in the dark

1. In secret: high-level decisions made in the dark.

2. In a state of ignorance; uninformed: kept me in the dark about their plans.

1. Dark and cool as a cave —David Huddle
2. Dark and heavy like a surface stained with ink —John Ashbery
3. (It was) dark as a closet —Niven Busch
4. Dark as a dungeon —Anon

   The simile is the title of a ballad from the American South.

5. Dark as anger —Sylvia Plath
6. Dark as a pocket —American colloquialism, attributed to Vermont
7. (All was) dark as a stack of black cats —J. S. Rioss
8. Dark as a thundercloud —Steven Vincent Benet
9. Dark as a troll —W. D. Snodgrass
10. Dark as a wolfs mouth —Miguel de Cervantes

    “Dark as” and “Black as” have been used interchangeably since the simile’s appearance in Don Quixote.

11. Dark as a womb —T. Coraghessan Boyle
12. Dark as blackberries —Marge Piercy
13. (The room was) dark as dreamless sleep —Harry Prince
14. (Eyelashes … ) dark as night —Lord Byron
15. Dark as sin —Mark Twain
16. Dark as the devil’s mouth —Walter Scott
17. Dark as the inside of a coffin —Gavin Lyall
18. Dark as the inside of a magician’s hat —Robert Campbell
19. Dark as the inside of a cow —Mark Twain
20. Dark as the river bottom —Paige Mitchell
21. Dark like wet coffee grounds —Ella Leffland
22. The darkness ahead … looked like Alaska —Richard North
23. Darkness as deep and cold as Siberian midnight —Gerald Kersh
24. Darkness [in a rainstorm] came closer … like a sodden velvet curtain —Frank Swinnerton
25. Darkness falls like a wet sponge —John Ashbery

    This is the opening line of an Ashbery poem entitled The Picture of Little J.A. in a Prospect of Flowers.

26. Darkness fell like a swift blow —James Crumley
27. Darkness fills her like a carbohydrate —Daniela Gioseffi
28. The darkness flew in like an unwelcome bird —Norman Garbo
29. Darkness had begun to come in like water —Alice McDermott
30. Darkness hanging over them like a blotter —T. Coraghessan Boyle
31. Darkness like a black lake —Erich Maria Remarque
32. Darkness … like a warm liquid poured from the throat of an enormous bird —John Hawkes
33. Darkness settling down round them like a soft bird —Rose Tremain
34. Darkness should be a private matter, like thought, like emotion —William Dieter
35. Darkness so total it seemed … like deep water —William Boyd
36. The darkness was like a rising tide that covered the gardens and the houses, erasing everything as a still sea erased footprints on a beach —John P. Marquand
37. Darkness was sinking down over the region like a veil —Thomas Mann
38. The darkness was thin, like some sleazy dress that has been worn and worn for many winters and always lets the cold through to the bones —Eudora Welty
39. Dim as a cave of the sea —Richard Wilbur
40. Dim as a cellar in midafternoon —Joyce Cary
41. Dim as an ill-lit railroad coach —Natascha Wodin
42. (My sun has set, I) dwell in darkness as a dead man out of sight —Christina Rossetti
43. Light … drained out of the windows like a sink —William H. Gass
44. So dark and murky it [a movie, The Fugitive Kind,] looked like everyone was drowning in chocolate syrup —Tennessee Williams, quoted in interview with Rex Reed