pitch blackness

1. 1.

   total absence of light

   “they fumbled around in total darkness”

   “in the black of night”

   Synonymstotal darknesslightlessnessblacknessblack

   Broaderdark

Questions about pitch blackness

What does pitch blackness mean?

pitch blackness means "total absence of light".

What is another word for pitch blackness?

Close synonyms include total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, black. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pitch blackness a common word?

pitch blackness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.