Synonyms for blackness
ˈblæk nɪsblack·ness

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1. blacknessnoun

   Antonyms:
   whiteness

2. blacknessnoun

   The blackness of outerspace comes from the lack of anything to reflect light rather than the absence of black.

   Antonyms:
   whiteness

3. blacknessnoun

   Antonyms:
   whiteness

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1. blackness

   Synonyms:
   dark, darkness, dimness, dusk, gloom, gloominess, obscurity, shade, shadow

   Antonyms:
   blaze, flame, flare, flash, flicker, glare, gleam, gleaming, glimmer, glistening, glistering, glitter, glow, illumination, incandescence, light, luster, scintillation, sheen, shimmer, shine, shining, sparkle, twinkle, twinkling

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1. black, blackness, inkinessnoun

   the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)

   Synonyms:
   inkiness, pitch blackness, black, blackamoor, lightlessness, total darkness

2. total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, blacknoun

   total absence of light

   "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night"

   Synonyms:
   inkiness, pitch blackness, lightlessness, black, blackamoor, total darkness

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1. • Achromatic Color

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1. blacknessnoun

   Synonyms:
   black, nigritude, atrocity, heinousness, depravity

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1. List of paraphrases for "blackness":

   darkness, dark, night

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1. Devon Jerome Crawford:

   Mayor Rahm Emanuel is implicated in the shooting death of Laquan McDonald, this killing indicates the detachment of city leaders from the plight of black, teenage youth on the South Side of Chicago and a willingness by the city to criminalize blackness as opposed to reforming structural inequality.

2. Michelle Obama:

   I've grown up in this community. I'm as black as it gets. I was born on the South side. I come from an obviously black family. We weren't rich. I put my blackness up against anybody's blackness in this state, ok ? , and Barack is a black man. And he's done more in terms of meeting his commitments and sticking his neck out for this community than many people who criticize him. And I can say that'cause I'm black.

3. Matt James:

   When I questioned our relationship, it was in the context of you not fully understanding my Blackness and what it means to be a Black man in America, it broke my heart, because this is the last conversation I thought we'd be having. I didn't sign up to have this conversation.

4. Tom:

   We are not the stars in the sky, we are the empty blackness around them.

5. William Shatner:

   You’re looking into blackness, that black ugliness. You’re looking at the blue down there [on Earth] and the black up there, there is mother Earth and comfort and there is… is there death? I don’t know, is that death? Is that the way death is?