blackness

obscurité, ténèbres

Zone plongée dans le noir où l'on ne peut rien voir.

En anglais simple : A dark area in which you cannot see anything.

• We stared into the blackness.
• A tiny light appeared in the blackness ahead.
• Their boat disappeared into the blackness beyond the harbor.

Synonymes : darkness, dark

Expressions courantes : into the blackness, out of blackness

noirceur

Caractère de ce qui a une couleur très sombre, comme le charbon.

En anglais simple : The quality of having a very dark color, like coal.

• The blackness of the ink surprised me.
• Soot gave the walls their blackness.
• Her silver necklace stood out against the blackness of her dress.

Comment l'utiliser : blackness of something (The snow emphasized the blackness of the rocks.)

Expressions courantes : deep blackness, blackness of something