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Benighted vs Benightedness - What's the difference?

benighted | benightedness |

As an adjective benighted

is plunged into darkness.

As a verb benighted

is (label)(benight).

As a noun benightedness is

the quality of being benighted.

benighted

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • plunged into darkness
  • overtaken by night
  • * 1936 , Robert Frost, "Desert Places"
    • And lonely as it is, that loneliness
    Will be more lonely ere it will be less —
    A blanker whiteness of benighted snow
    With no expression, nothing to express.
  • lacking knowledge or education; unenlightened

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (label)(benight)

    • Anagrams

    *

    benightedness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being benighted.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=May 2, author=Ginia Bellafante, title=Spinsterhood Is Powerful (Until a Catch Shows Up), work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Although it falls under the rubric of “Masterpiece Classic” (as opposed to the Contemporary or Mystery divisions), it holds no interest in shifting any impressions of benightedness . }}