释义 |
Definition of blackness in English: blacknessnoun ˈblaknəsˈblæknəs mass noun1The property or quality of being black in colour. it restores grey hair to blackness Example sentencesExamples - These three mezzotints have a gorgeous inky blackness out of which roofs in his typical style are all but subsumed.
- The figure on the throne was grinning maliciously beneath the blackness of his hood.
- She was the one who stood out from the general indistinguishable blackness of the singers' garb.
- Their horizontally biased edges, along with their blackness, tie them together and also relate them to the colored bands above and below.
- There flows a ruddier light through the blood-colored panes, and the blackness of the sable drapery appalls.
- The ring's low height and shiny blackness suggest an experimental apparatus.
- Consider the whiteness of the sword, not the blackness of the letters.
- The sun was blocked out by the blackness of the clouds.
- The blackness of the breast stripe was calculated by averaging the gray values of the pixels.
- The disparity seems further exaggerated by the size and blackness of the soldier's hat.
- 1.1 Complete darkness; the absence of any light.
the entire house was plunged into pitch blackness Example sentencesExamples - One exceptional scene shows that under all the blackness there is a ray of light.
- Set upright and lined with fireworks, it bursts into brilliant flame against the night sky and slowly dies away to blackness.
- The camera pans across a galaxy of stars and planets, novae, and nebulae twinkling in the blackness.
- The figure is seen in raking light against an impenetrable blackness.
- Various horrifying images pop out of the blackness and into the minimal light.
- The blackness of space has never seemed so encompassing.
- It's a masterful moment that would likely lose most of its impact if not projected in the blackness of a theater.
- In his moody and romantic photographs, images of roads and beautiful young girls emerge out of an inky blackness.
- As the first half of the film fades out to blackness, so does the spectator's perception of lingering domestic comfort.
- It's an etching of a floating ball of light suffusing into blackness.
2The fact or state of belonging to any human group having dark-coloured skin. my experiences have made me far more aware of my blackness than ever before she holds that position not because of her blackness, but her effectiveness Example sentencesExamples - In the logic of emerging European concept of race, blackness and nationalism were mutually exclusive.
- The young protagonist struggles to come to terms with his own racial and ethnic identity, and to accept and embrace his blackness.
- This short comedy pastiches common conceptions and stereotypes of blackness and the black male.
- The porter tries to conceal his blackness by using a toxic chemical formula on his hair and skin.
- His autobiography thus presents his blackness less as a deliberate mode of self-transformation than as an expression of something "latent within himself."
- He wonders if his blackness makes him what Du Bois described as a not-fully human being who occupies the space between human and animal.
- They realize that their reduction to penury is due to discrimination against their blackness on the part of whites and blacks alike.
- She asserts her blackness in hardcore music.
- The analogies deployed to regulate other minorities extend beyond the categories of blackness and whiteness.
- Her blackness calls these categories into question, and Doc responds by scripting her as an unidentifiable object, neither a "who" nor a "what."
- 2.1 The quality or character associated with black people.
the blackness of his poetry is an inextricable aspect of his subject matter Example sentencesExamples - It essentially restricts blackness to this hop-hop–based definition.
- Her performance of "blackness" can be seen as an attempt to reevaluate the desirability of "desiring to be black."
- Their depictions of what the Dartmouth professor has called "literary blackness" achieve an important postmodern perspective.
- The blackness that was in rockabilly in no way constituted an innovation in country music.
- The authenticity and blackness in rock music is illustrated in some of the earliest published histories of rock.
- I think a lot about the Beatles, and the way they expressed a blackness and a soul in their singing.
- She is impishly marrying stereotypes of black and white beauty, placing blackness in a predictably white setting.
- The jazzy blackness and the minimal discord give way to hushed serenity, remolding the songs into new creatures.
- The white kids want to experience blackness, dramatic and direct.
- In his early years, blackness had meant a pointillism of culture that included collard greens, grits, and pig's feet.
3A state characterized by despair or depression. there is a little hope amid the blackness of his life the absolute depths of blackness and morbidity Example sentencesExamples - As the wracking tears continue to come, the blackness becomes complete and there is something that happens to her mind.
- I was staring down at a maw of blackness that had robbed me of my hope and future.
- As their words evoke the McCarthy era, we are reminded of the blackness of the postwar period.
- Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out.
- He struggled against the blackness that shrouded his mind.
- The shades of gray in their relationship make the blackness of her home life seem overdone.
- I dreamt of troubled blackness, but the shadows couldn't touch me.
- There was no way to measure the time she had been sunk in a blackness, the utter depths where nothing stirred.
- Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they're going through.
- A tide of blackness ebbed into his consciousness, a rolling fog slowly distorting his thoughts.
- 3.1archaic A state or condition of being evil or wicked.
the blackness of the human heart through the atrocities of war Example sentencesExamples - 'Tis possible the armor will see naught but wicked blackness in your heart.
- it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.
- "There is blackness in even the cleanest heart, child," she laughed.
- The angels were gasping as they stepped closer, eyes wide as Desdemona was quickly surrounded by that blackness again.
- It was bubbling and churning, and fingers of blackness probed and stabbed out of the front of it, marking him.
Definition of blackness in US English: blacknessnounˈblaknəsˈblæknəs 1The property or quality of being black in color. it restores gray hair to blackness Example sentencesExamples - Their horizontally biased edges, along with their blackness, tie them together and also relate them to the colored bands above and below.
- Consider the whiteness of the sword, not the blackness of the letters.
- She was the one who stood out from the general indistinguishable blackness of the singers' garb.
- The blackness of the breast stripe was calculated by averaging the gray values of the pixels.
- These three mezzotints have a gorgeous inky blackness out of which roofs in his typical style are all but subsumed.
- There flows a ruddier light through the blood-colored panes, and the blackness of the sable drapery appalls.
- The ring's low height and shiny blackness suggest an experimental apparatus.
- The figure on the throne was grinning maliciously beneath the blackness of his hood.
- The sun was blocked out by the blackness of the clouds.
- The disparity seems further exaggerated by the size and blackness of the soldier's hat.
- 1.1 Complete darkness; the absence of any light.
the entire house was plunged into pitch blackness Example sentencesExamples - As the first half of the film fades out to blackness, so does the spectator's perception of lingering domestic comfort.
- Set upright and lined with fireworks, it bursts into brilliant flame against the night sky and slowly dies away to blackness.
- It's an etching of a floating ball of light suffusing into blackness.
- The blackness of space has never seemed so encompassing.
- One exceptional scene shows that under all the blackness there is a ray of light.
- In his moody and romantic photographs, images of roads and beautiful young girls emerge out of an inky blackness.
- The camera pans across a galaxy of stars and planets, novae, and nebulae twinkling in the blackness.
- Various horrifying images pop out of the blackness and into the minimal light.
- The figure is seen in raking light against an impenetrable blackness.
- It's a masterful moment that would likely lose most of its impact if not projected in the blackness of a theater.
2The fact or state of belonging to any human group having dark-colored skin. my experiences have made me far more aware of my blackness than ever before she holds that position not because of her blackness, but her effectiveness Example sentencesExamples - She asserts her blackness in hardcore music.
- His autobiography thus presents his blackness less as a deliberate mode of self-transformation than as an expression of something "latent within himself."
- The young protagonist struggles to come to terms with his own racial and ethnic identity, and to accept and embrace his blackness.
- He wonders if his blackness makes him what Du Bois described as a not-fully human being who occupies the space between human and animal.
- The analogies deployed to regulate other minorities extend beyond the categories of blackness and whiteness.
- Her blackness calls these categories into question, and Doc responds by scripting her as an unidentifiable object, neither a "who" nor a "what."
- They realize that their reduction to penury is due to discrimination against their blackness on the part of whites and blacks alike.
- In the logic of emerging European concept of race, blackness and nationalism were mutually exclusive.
- The porter tries to conceal his blackness by using a toxic chemical formula on his hair and skin.
- This short comedy pastiches common conceptions and stereotypes of blackness and the black male.
- 2.1 The quality or character associated with black people.
the blackness of his poetry is an inextricable aspect of his subject matter Example sentencesExamples - She is impishly marrying stereotypes of black and white beauty, placing blackness in a predictably white setting.
- The authenticity and blackness in rock music is illustrated in some of the earliest published histories of rock.
- The white kids want to experience blackness, dramatic and direct.
- Her performance of "blackness" can be seen as an attempt to reevaluate the desirability of "desiring to be black."
- The blackness that was in rockabilly in no way constituted an innovation in country music.
- In his early years, blackness had meant a pointillism of culture that included collard greens, grits, and pig's feet.
- I think a lot about the Beatles, and the way they expressed a blackness and a soul in their singing.
- Their depictions of what the Dartmouth professor has called "literary blackness" achieve an important postmodern perspective.
- The jazzy blackness and the minimal discord give way to hushed serenity, remolding the songs into new creatures.
- It essentially restricts blackness to this hop-hop–based definition.
3A state characterized by despair or depression. there is a little hope amid the blackness of his life the absolute depths of blackness and morbidity Example sentencesExamples - I dreamt of troubled blackness, but the shadows couldn't touch me.
- As the wracking tears continue to come, the blackness becomes complete and there is something that happens to her mind.
- He struggled against the blackness that shrouded his mind.
- A tide of blackness ebbed into his consciousness, a rolling fog slowly distorting his thoughts.
- There was no way to measure the time she had been sunk in a blackness, the utter depths where nothing stirred.
- Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they're going through.
- As their words evoke the McCarthy era, we are reminded of the blackness of the postwar period.
- Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out.
- The shades of gray in their relationship make the blackness of her home life seem overdone.
- I was staring down at a maw of blackness that had robbed me of my hope and future.
- 3.1archaic A state or condition of being evil or wicked.
the blackness of the human heart through the atrocities of war Example sentencesExamples - 'Tis possible the armor will see naught but wicked blackness in your heart.
- The angels were gasping as they stepped closer, eyes wide as Desdemona was quickly surrounded by that blackness again.
- "There is blackness in even the cleanest heart, child," she laughed.
- it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.
- It was bubbling and churning, and fingers of blackness probed and stabbed out of the front of it, marking him.
|