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# blackness

«blackness» in Mova's school dictionary: **The state of being very dark or black, with little or no…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (no plural)

### meaning for a pupil

The state of being very dark or black, with little or no light. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blackness/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

the deep dark of a night, a cave, or a forest, where nothing can be seen; in tales, a place where things move unseen.

### examples

- We could see nothing in the blackness of the cave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blackness/#x1)
- The owl flew out of the blackness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blackness/#x2)
- Stars shone far above in the blackness of the sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blackness/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### In the corpora

- [I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1120/)
- [At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces have gathered blackness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOL.26/)
- [In the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.185/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «blackness» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blackness/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.