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say it: DAHRK-nuhs
darkness is a noun meaning "absence of light or illumination". It is pronounced /ˈdɑɹknəs/ — DAHRK-nuhs. It carries 6 recorded senses.
absence of light or illumination
an unilluminated area
“he moved off into the darkness”
absence of moral or spiritual values
“the powers of darkness”
an unenlightened state
“he was in the dark concerning their intentions”
“his lectures dispelled the darkness”
a swarthy complexion
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for darkness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.