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Heaviness vs Darkness - What's the difference?

heaviness | darkness | Related terms |

As nouns the difference between heaviness and darkness

is that heaviness is the state of being heavy; weight, weightiness, force of impact or gravity while darkness is the state of being dark; lack of light.

heaviness

English

Noun

  • The state of being heavy; weight, weightiness, force of impact or gravity.
  • (obsolete) Oppression; dejectedness, sadness.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vii:
  • *:First got with guile, and then preseru'd with dread, / And after spent with pride and lauishnesse, / Leauing behind them griefe and heauinesse .
  • 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