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The state of being dark or having little to no light
She turned off the lights, plunging the room into darkness.
She turned off the lights, making the room completely dark.
Can refer to literal darkness or metaphorical darkness (e.g., ignorance, evil).
A state of ignorance, confusion, or lack of understanding
The darkness of his past haunted him for years.
His unknown or troubled past troubled him for years.
Often used metaphorically to describe emotional or psychological states.
Darkness can describe both the absence of light and metaphorical states like ignorance or evil.
While darkness is a powerful word, overusing it metaphorically can make writing or speech feel heavy or negative.
From Middle English 'darknesse', from Old English 'deorcnes' (darkness), from 'deorc' (dark).
Can be used literally to describe the absence of light or metaphorically to describe ignorance, evil, or emotional states.