Etymology
Origin of blackness
Example Sentences
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“This was a period in English culture before blackness acquired its fatal association with slavery,” he writes, identifying a “certain strain of indifference to color” in the thinking of the time.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
All eyewitnesses like Samia* can say for certain is that the lights went out suddenly, plunging D Chowk, the square where they had gathered, into blackness.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2024
It is blackness that refuses to accept subjugation, to give up.
From Salon • Aug. 6, 2024
But I was just as transfixed by the absolute blackness of the moon within.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2024
He could see nothing at all: blackness, and a roar.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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