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(n)
Alternative spelling of somberness. [The state or quality of being somber.]
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The state or condition of being gloomy.
The state or quality of being somber.
The emotion of being glum.
(obsolete) Gloom; obscurity; duskiness.
The state of being unknown; a thing that is unknown.
(uncountable) The state of being dark; lack of light; the absolute or comparative absence of light.
Darkness, or a dark or gloomy environment.
(obsolete) Gloom; sadness.
(usually in the plural, informal) A feeling of sadness or depression.
Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
(uncountable) The state or emotion of being sad.
Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
Alternative form of saad (“Arabic letter”). [The letter ص in the Arabic script.]
A lack of hope; despair.
(uncountable) unhappiness, woe
Emotional pain, generally arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.
A general belief that bad things will happen.
Someone who habitually expects the worst outcome; one who looks on the dark side of things.
(chiefly Scotland) A manager or steward, e.g. of a farm.
The quality or state of being slow.
(uncountable) The state or quality of being tardy.
(adj)
Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
The feeling of not being happy.
The state or quality of being black in colour.
A small particle of glowing matter, either molten or on fire, resulting from an electrical surge or excessive heat created by friction.
(countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
The state or quality of being murky.
A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.
The state or property of being shadowy.
The state of being dim.
A state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues.
The loss of hope or confidence; despair or dejection.
The quality of being dusky.
Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
The characteristic of being doleful; sadness.
The characteristic of being downhearted; sadness.
Partial gloom or darkness.
Obsolete spelling of darkness. [(uncountable) The state of being dark; lack of light; the absolute or comparative absence of light.]
Allowing little light to pass through, not translucent or transparent.
A state of obscurity; confusion; absence of clarity.
A particularly unfavorable or mediocre moment or aspect.
(literary or poetic) The absence of light; darkness.
Whiteness or brightness, especially where darkness is expected or found.
Intense darkness with no light whatsoever.
Deliberate obscurity or vagueness.
A state of despondence or melancholy.
(uncountable) Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.
The state or characteristic of being without the sun or sunshine.
(figuratively) mental darkness; ignorance.
The fact of not distinguishing or making distinctions; failure to perceive or make a difference.
(countable) The time when the Sun is below the horizon when the sky is dark.
semidarkness
(obsolete) The negative aspect of God, encompassing darkness, cold, destruction, etc.
(astronomy) the intergalactic void
(uncountable) Haziness, blurriness.
(figurative) Not exceptional; not worthy of special merit, attention, or interest; having no vitality.
Harm, hurt, damage.
The condition of being blind; unable to see.
The state or condition of being lightless; absence of light.
Absence of shadows.
The condition of being nebulated.
Absence of shade.
Partial obscurity.
Absence of illumination.
(poetic) Utter darkness, without any ray of light.
A restrained or subdued situation.
A covering, usually a bandage, for the eyes, blocking light to the eyes.
Lack of glamour.
Absence or lack of hope; hopelessness; despair.
A mood or display of despair.
(obsolete) Lack of evidence; obscurity or unclarity
A low or downcast condition; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation.
Lack of fame or renown; obscurity.
(archaic) concealment or hiddenness; seclusion
A cloud of dust or duststorm that creates conditions of inadequate visibility.
A desolate environment without any source of light, such as that found in deep space.
(uncountable) The quality of lacking variety or excitement.
A large-scale power failure, and resulting loss of electricity to consumers.
(pathology) An abrupt loss of consciousness usually caused by an insufficient blood flow to the brain; fainting.
(by extension) A dull or uninteresting appearance or situation, unremarkable.
Lack of fame; obscurity.
Silence; inability or refusal to speak.
The quality of being uninteresting; boring; humorless or irksome.
(by extension) A desolate or devastated landscape.
(uncountable) The condition or feeling of lacking delight; unhappiness or displeasure.
Absence of luster.
(now uncommon) Mental lethargy or dullness.
(literary) The deepest part. (Usually of a body of water.)
The state of being desolated or laid waste
(psychology) Any of the pictures used as stimuli in the Rorschach test.
The quality of being moonless; absence of a (visible) moon.