total darkness
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Definition
Noun: * Complete absence of light: A state where there is no light whatsoever; absolute darkness.
Usage
"Total darkness" is used to describe an environment where no light can be seen. It emphasizes a complete and often profound lack of illumination.
Examples
- The power outage plunged the entire city into total darkness.
- To see the stars clearly, you need to find a place of total darkness, far from any city lights.
- The cave was so deep that we experienced total darkness after just a few steps inside.
Advanced Usage
- "in total darkness": This is the most common prepositional phrase used with the term.
- The explorers moved cautiously in total darkness, relying only on their sense of touch.
Variants and Related Words
- Darkness (n): The partial or complete absence of light. ("Total darkness" is an intensified form of "darkness".)
- Pitch-black (adj): Completely dark.
- The room was pitch-black.
- Lightless (adj): Giving off or containing no light.
- A lightless corridor.
Synonyms
- Blackness: The quality or state of being black; deep darkness.
- Pitch blackness: Intense, complete darkness.
- Cimmerian darkness: (Literary) Intense darkness. (From Greek mythology, referring to a people living in perpetual darkness.)
- Lightlessness: The state of having no light.
Related Phrases
- The black of night: A poetic or descriptive phrase for the darkest part of the night.
- He vanished into the black of night.
Noun
- total absence of light
- they fumbled around in total darkness
- in the black of night