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. Charles Duke:

   The first time I saw it [the Earth], we came from the backside of the Moon and we watched Earthrise. My first thought was, Were a long way from home, but after that, you recognize the beauty of it the blue, the white and the brown. Earth was just there suspended upon nothing, in the blackness of space.It was just awesome.

2. Tom:

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

3. Lawrence Brown:

   When you combine the psychological impact of racism, anti-blackness, economic conditions, red-lining, disinvestment.

4. 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.

5. Nikole Hannah-Jones:

   This year, to me, is just reflective of what I’ve always understood about this country, and that is that steps forward, steps towards racial progress, are always met with an intensive backlash. That we are a society that willfully does not want to deal with the anti-Blackness that is at the core of so many of our institutions and really our society itself.