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Total Darkness

Definition: Total Darkness

Total Darkness

Noun

1. Total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Total Darkness

Synonyms: black (n), blackness (n), lightlessness (n), pitch blackness (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Total Darkness

English words defined with "total darkness": gloomsomberness, sombrenessWhole snipe. (references)

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Modern Usage: Total Darkness

DomainUsage

Screenplays

All be locked away in total darkness for the rest of eternity, just as my father was! (Dragon Ball Z; writing credit: Chris Forbis; Eric Johnson)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Total Darkness

Illustrations:
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Modern Translation: Total Darkness

Language Translations for "total darkness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

hluboká tma. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

täydellinen pimeys. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

真暗闇 , 真暗 (shortsightedness), 真っ暗 (pitch dark, shortsightedness). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

まくらやみ, まくら (bolster, pillow, shortsightedness), まっくら (pitch dark, shortsightedness). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otaltay arknessday

   

Turkmen 

  

hьяt-garaсky. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Total Darkness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-k-l-n-o-r-s-s-t-t"

-2 letters: sandlotters.

-3 letters: sandlotter, translated, translates.

-4 letters: aerostats, alterants, loadstars, lodestars, seastrand, slatterns, solanders, tarletans, translate.

-5 letters: adrenals, aerosats, aerostat, alastors, alkanets, alterant, arnattos, arsenals, assentor, assorted, asternal, atlantes, attorned, darkness, delators, dottrels, knotless, knotters, ladrones, leotards, loadstar, lodestar, oldsters, roadless, salterns, sandlots, sealants, seasonal, senators, settlors, skatoles, slanders, slattern, snorkels, solander, stalkers, standers, starkest.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Total Darkness


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 6F 74 61 6C      44 61 72 6B 6E 65 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01101111 01110100 01100001 01101100 00100000 01000100 01100001 01110010 01101011 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#111 &#116 &#97 &#108 &#32 &#68 &#97 &#114 &#107 &#110 &#101 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 006F 0074 0061 006C      0044 0061 0072 006B 006E 0065 0073 0073

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

548186677823867847780718585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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