Lightness vs. Darkness
Lightness and Darkness Definitions
Lightness
The quality or condition of being illuminated.
Darkness
Lacking or having very little light
A dark corner.
Lightness
The dimension of the color of an object by which the object appears to reflect or transmit more or less of the incident light, varying from black to white for surface colors and from black to colorless for transparent volume colors.
Darkness
Lacking brightness
A dark day.
Lightness
The state or quality of having little weight or force.
Darkness
Reflecting only a small fraction of incident light; tending toward black
Dark clothing.
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Lightness
Ease or quickness of movement; agility.
Darkness
Served without milk or cream
Dark coffee.
Lightness
Ease or cheerfulness in manner or style.
Darkness
Being or having a complexion that is not light in color.
Lightness
Freedom from worry or trouble.
Darkness
Sullen or threatening
A dark scowl.
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Lightness
Lack of appropriate seriousness; levity.
Darkness
Characterized by gloom or pessimism; dismal or bleak
A dark day for the economy.
Dark predictions of what lies in store.
Lightness
Delicacy or subtlety in craft, performance, or effect.
Darkness
Being or characterized by morbid or grimly satiric humor.
Lightness
(uncountable) the condition of being illuminated
Darkness
Unknown or concealed; mysterious
A dark secret.
The dark workings of the unconscious.
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Lightness
(uncountable) the relative whiteness or transparency of a colour
Darkness
Lacking enlightenment, knowledge, or culture
A dark age in the history of education.
Lightness
(countable) The product of being illuminated.
Darkness
Evil in nature or effect; sinister
"churned up dark undercurrents of ethnic and religious hostility" (Peter Maas).
Lightness
The state of having little (or less) weight, or little force.
Darkness
Morally corrupt; vicious
Dark deeds.
A dark past.
Lightness
Agility of movement.
Darkness
Having richness or depth
A dark, melancholy vocal tone.
Lightness
Freedom from worry.
Darkness
Not giving performances; closed
The movie theater is dark on Mondays.
Lightness
Levity, frivolity; inconsistency.
Darkness
(Linguistics) Pronounced with the back of the tongue raised toward the velum. Used of the sound (l) in words like full.
Lightness
The state, condition, or quality, of being light or not heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; nimbleness; delicacy; grace.
Darkness
Absence of light.
Lightness
Illumination, or degree of illumination; as, the lightness of a room.
Darkness
A place having little or no light.
Lightness
Absence of depth or of duskiness in color; as, the lightness of a tint; lightness of complexion.
Darkness
Night; nightfall
Home before dark.
Lightness
The property of being comparatively small in weight;
The lightness of balsa wood
Darkness
A deep hue or color.
Lightness
The gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble
Darkness
Darks Pieces of laundry having a dark color.
Lightness
Having a light color
Darkness
(uncountable) The state of being dark; lack of light; the absolute or comparative absence of light.
The darkness of the room made it difficult to see.
Lightness
The visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures;
He could paint the lightest light and the darkest dark
Darkness
(uncountable) The state or quality of reflecting little light, of tending to a blackish or brownish color.
The darkness of her skin betrayed her Mediterranean heritage.
Darkness
(uncountable) Gloom; gloominess; depression.
Darkness
(countable) The product of being dark.
Darkness
(uncountable) Lack of understanding or compassion; spiritual or mental blindness.
Darkness
(uncountable) Secrecy; concealment.
Darkness
(uncountable) Lack of knowledge; obscurity or meaning or intelligibility; the unknown.
Darkness
(uncountable) Hell.
Darkness
The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom.
And darkness was upon the face of the deep.
Darkness
A state of privacy; secrecy.
What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light.
Darkness
A state of ignorance or error, especially on moral or religious subjects; hence, wickedness; impurity.
Men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
Pursue these sons of darkness: drive them outFrom all heaven's bounds.
Darkness
Want of clearness or perspicuity; obscurity; as, the darkness of a subject, or of a discussion.
Darkness
A state of distress or trouble.
A day of clouds and of thick darkness.
Darkness
Absence of light or illumination
Darkness
An unilluminated area;
He moved off into the darkness
Darkness
Absence of moral or spiritual values;
The powers of darkness
Darkness
An unenlightened state;
He was in the dark concerning their intentions
His lectures dispelled the darkness
Darkness
Having a dark or somber color
Darkness
A swarthy complexion
