BLANKNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blankness mean? 

• BLANKNESS (noun)
  The noun BLANKNESS has 1 sense:

1. the state of being blank; void; emptiness

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLANKNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being blank; void; emptiness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

emptiness (the state of containing nothing)

Derivation:

blank ((of a surface) not written or printed on)

 Context examples 

This meant me, I thought, and then the blankness and darkness rose over me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

For a full minute the blackness and the blankness endured.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I felt myself slipping into unconsciousness, and tried with all the power of my will to fight above the suffocating blankness and darkness that was rising around me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

How long this lasted I have no conception, for a blankness intervened, of which I remember no more than one remembers of troubled and painful sleep.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)