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Hardness vs Darkness - What's the difference?

hardness | darkness |

As nouns the difference between hardness and darkness

is that hardness is the quality of being hard while darkness is (lb) the state of being dark; lack of light.

hardness

English

Noun

  • The quality of being hard.
  • An instance of this quality; hardship.

    • See also

    * hardiness

    References

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    darkness

    English

    Alternative forms

    * darckness (obsolete) * darkeness (obsolete)

    Noun

  • (lb) The state of being dark; lack of light.
  • :
  • *1912 , (Willa Cather),
  • *:Over everything was darkness and thick silence, and the smell of dust and sunflowers.
  • *
  • *: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.
  • :
  • (lb) Evilness, lack of understanding or compassion, reference to death or suffering.

    • Antonyms

    * lightness