sunlessness

sunlessness
a) The state or characteristic of being without the sun or sunshine.

In Penzance and Falmouth, the total eclipse will last for 2 minutes 2 seconds. The longest period of sunlessness will be in Romania, at 2 mins 23 seconds.

b) Dreariness, joylessness.

The honor she paid the honesty of these women helped her much to pity the sunlessness of their existence, and the poor end for which they lived.


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  • sunlessness — sunˈlessness noun • • • Main Entry: ↑sun …   Useful english dictionary

  • sunless — sunlessly, adv. sunlessness, n. /sun lis/, adj. 1. lacking sun or sunlight; dark: a sunless room. 2. dismal; gloomy; cheerless: a sunless smile. [1580 90; SUN + LESS] * * * …   Universalium

  • Erebus — Synonyms and related words: Aides, Aidoneus, Cerberus, Charon, Cora, Despoina, Dis, Dis pater, Egyptian darkness, Hades, Hel, Kore, Loki, Minos, Orcus, Osiris, Persephassa, Persephone, Pluto, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhadamanthus, Satan, blackness …   Moby Thesaurus

  • dark — Synonyms and related words: Egyptian darkness, Erebus, Gothicism, Stygian, ableptical, abominable, abstruse, adiaphanous, age of ignorance, amaurotic, amoral, amorphous, amorphousness, apocalyptic, arcane, arrant, atramentous, atrocious, bad,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • dead of night — Synonyms and related words: Egyptian darkness, Erebus, awful silence, blackness, dark, darkness, darkness visible, dead, deathlike silence, golden silence, hush, hush of night, inaudibility, intense darkness, lightlessness, lucid stillness, lull …   Moby Thesaurus

  • night — Synonyms and related words: Egyptian darkness, Erebus, all the time, all night, blackness, ceaselessly, charcoal, coal, continually, continuously, crow, dark, dark of night, darkness, darkness visible, dead of night, dusk, ebon, ebony, endlessly …   Moby Thesaurus

  • obscurity — Synonyms and related words: Egyptian darkness, Erebus, a nobody, a nothing, abstruseness, adiaphanousness, ambiguousness, amorphia, amorphism, amorphousness, anarchy, anonymity, arcanum, blackness, bleariness, blobbiness, blur, blurriness,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • swarthiness — Synonyms and related words: Egyptian darkness, Erebus, blackishness, blackness, dark, darkishness, darkness, darkness visible, darksomeness, dead of night, duskiness, duskness, funereality, graveness, intense darkness, lightlessness, moonlessness …   Moby Thesaurus

  • sun — noun 1》 (also Sun) the star round which the earth orbits.     ↘any similar star, with or without planets. 2》 the light or warmth received from the sun. 3》 literary a day or a year. verb (suns, sunning, sunned) (sun oneself) sit or lie in the sun …   English new terms dictionary

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