darknesses
- 1Plural of darkness.
The novel explores the private darknesses that each character carries alone.
Astronomers described the vast darknesses stretching between distant galaxies.
Note
Most of what darkness means cannot be counted: the absence of light, a blackish quality, gloom, spiritual blindness. The plural belongs to the two countable uses, a space that darkness fills and a thing that is the product of being dark. That is why it suits the gaps between galaxies or the separate shadows people carry. For plain lack of light, keep the singular: the room fell into darkness.
- 2Plural of darknesse.
Note
An old spelling that leaves no trace in the plural: darknesse, the obsolete form with a final e, adds -s and lands on exactly the same letters as the modern plural. On the page the two cannot be told apart. So darknesses in older writing is simply darkness counted, and it is read through the countable uses of the modern word.
darknesses is a form of darkness
darkness, noun: The state of being dark; the complete or partial absence of light. Full entry
- Forms
- darknessdarknesses plural
- Spelling
- darkness → darknesses: add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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