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LIGHTLESSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lightlessness mean? 

LIGHTLESSNESS (noun)
  The noun LIGHTLESSNESS has 1 sense:

1. total absence of lightplay

  Familiarity information: LIGHTLESSNESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LIGHTLESSNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Total absence of light

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

black; blackness; lightlessness; pitch blackness; total darkness

Context example:

in the black of night

Hypernyms ("lightlessness" is a kind of...):

dark; darkness (absence of light or illumination)

Derivation:

lightless (without illumination)

lightless (giving no light)


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