Frankie blamed his own blackness for his school problems. His real issue was that so did his teachers.
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Blackness
/ˈblæknəs/
Synonyms for "blackness" (26 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (6)
Strong matches (7)
Related words (13)
Noun(7 words)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
11 entriesachromatic colorachromatic colourappearancecolordarkdarknessethnicityidentity categorylighting conditionracial identityvisual property
More specific
7 entriesAfrican American identityCaribbean blacknessdeep blacknessdiaspora blacknessdimnessjet blacknessnighttime darkness
Collocations
5 entriesabsolute blacknesscosmic blacknessdeep blacknesspitch blacknessracial blackness
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
2 entriesTranslations
39 translations across 25 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- μελανότης noun (state or quality of being black)
Arabic
1 entries- سَوَاد noun (state or quality of being black)
Catalan
2 entries- negror noun (state or quality of being black)
- negror noun (result or product)
Esperanto
1 entries- nigreco noun (state or quality of being black)
Finnish
1 entries- mustuus noun (state or quality of being black)
French
1 entries- noirceur noun (state or quality of being black)
Galician
2 entries- negror noun (state or quality of being black)
- negrura noun (state or quality of being black)
Georgian
1 entries- სიშავე noun (state or quality of being black)
German
1 entries- Schwärze noun (state or quality of being black)
Italian
1 entries- nerezza noun (state or quality of being black)
Latin
3 entries- nigredo noun (state or quality of being black)
- nigritia noun (state or quality of being black)
- nigror noun (state or quality of being black)
Manx
1 entries- dooid noun (state or quality of being black)
Marathi
2 entries- काळेपणा noun (state or quality of being black)
- काळोख noun (state or quality of being black)
Old English
1 entries- sweartnes noun (state or quality of being black)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- سواد noun (state or quality of being black)
Polish
3 entries- czarność noun (state or quality of being black)
- czerń noun (state or quality of being black)
- czerń noun (result or product)
Portuguese
3 entries- negridão noun (state or quality of being black)
- negror noun (state or quality of being black)
- negrura noun (state or quality of being black)
Punjabi
1 entries- کالَکھ noun (state or quality of being black)
Russian
1 entries- чернота́ noun (state or quality of being black)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- dubh noun (state or quality of being black)
- dubh noun (result or product)
Spanish
4 entries- negror noun (state or quality of being black)
- negror noun (result or product)
- negrura noun (state or quality of being black)
- negrura noun (result or product)
Swedish
1 entries- svärta noun (state or quality of being black)
Thai
1 entries- ความดำ noun (state or quality of being black)
Turkish
2 entries- karalık noun (state or quality of being black)
- siyahlık noun (state or quality of being black)
Welsh
1 entries- düwch noun (state or quality of being black)
Sample sentences
25 total sentences available.
Tom stared into the impenetrable blackness of the night sky.
Source: tatoeba (1343777)
The pupils of her eyes had the blackness of a deep chasm.
Source: tatoeba (2789128)
The pupils of her eyes had the blackness of a deep abyss.
Source: tatoeba (2790418)
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