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Darkness vs Raylessness - What's the difference?

darkness | raylessness |

As nouns the difference between darkness and raylessness

is that darkness is the state of being dark; lack of light while raylessness is utter darkness, without any ray of light.

darkness

English

Alternative forms

* darckness (obsolete) * darkeness (obsolete)

Noun

  • (lb) The state of being dark; lack of light.
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  • *1912 , (Willa Cather),
  • *:Over everything was darkness and thick silence, and the smell of dust and sunflowers.
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  • *:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness , but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
  • (lb) Gloom.
  • (lb) The product of being dark.
  • (lb) The state or quality of reflecting little light, of tending to a blackish or brownish color.
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  • (lb) Evilness, lack of understanding or compassion, reference to death or suffering.

    • Antonyms

    * lightness

    raylessness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (poetic) Utter darkness, without any ray of light.
  • *1844 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘The Premature Burial’:
    • I knew that I had now fully recovered the use of my visual faculties—and yet it was dark—all dark—the intense and utter raylessness of the Night that endureth for evermore.
  • (botany) The condition of being rayless