total darkness

1. 1.

   total absence of light

   “they fumbled around in total darkness”

   “in the black of night”

   Synonymslightlessnessblacknesspitch blacknessblack

   Broaderdark

Questions about total darkness

What does total darkness mean?

total darkness means "total absence of light".

What is another word for total darkness?

Close synonyms include lightlessness, blackness, pitch 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 total darkness a common word?

total darkness 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.