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n. The state, property or quality of being black.

n. The result or product of being black.

n. The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness.

n. The quality of being black; black color; darkness.

n. Moral darkness; atrocity or enormity in wickedness.

n. total absence of light

n. the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)

"Some reviewers have criticized what they see as a propensity toward contradiction in the book, but one wonders whether it isn't an inevitable byproduct of her approach; Dickerson imagines a world where "blackness" is allowed its contradictions, and doesn't require a party line."

whiteness   

dark    darkness   

slackness   

darkness    emptiness    stillness    fog    whiteness    expanse    depth    abyss    haze    loneliness