EnglishMerriam-Webster Dictionary
'text' aria-label='sense b1'>b (1) : the quality of being dark in shade or color //the darkness of the old wooden floor //the darkness of these blues and greens : dark color or colors //In O'Donnell's paintings, darkness pre-dominates. If there are bright colors, they are painted over a deep-hued ground. — Richard Kalina
(2) : the quality of being dark in complexion //Other kids teased him mercilessly for the darkness of his skin and his beanpole physique. — Jeffri Chadiha
c (1) : a gloomy or depressed state or tone //I've tried a number of different mental techniques, mostly prayer, visualization, and meditation, but nothing has worked to lighten my darkness. — Will Manley //And the other darkness was a tremendous sorrow, a deep sadness that her mother was dead and that the princess could, now, only talk to her in her dreams. — Kate DiCamillo //What, I wondered, did the good man of the cloth make of the reckless humor, the anger and the darkness of those late works? — Russell Banks
(2) : evil //From the same source he drew the picture of a heavenly visitor, a god who comes to earth to impart true knowledge … and save humanity from the powers of darkness. — J. Louis Martyn (3) : a lack of knowledge or enlightenment //In 1492, the intellectual darkness that shrouded Europe for centuries was slowly, almost grudgingly lifting. — Bob Fisher
