Blackness
Blackness noun - A time or place of little or no light.
Usage example: strange nocturnal noises emanated from the forbidding blackness of the forest
Light
Light noun - The steady giving off of the form of radiation that makes vision possible.
Usage example: he read poetry to her by the light of the moon
Both words in one sentence
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That's all we see of it - points of light being violently yanked off-camera in the blackness - when it dies.
Source: By the Lights of Their Eyes - One of the scenes in the book has the ship coasting in blackness (they're essentially moving too fast to see the light from the stars) while the crew goes outside to make repairs.
Source: Literature / Tau Zero -
Due to the low-powered light sources and the pitch-blackness of the coffin, most, if not all of Buried is shot like this.
Source: Chiaroscuro
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Light and Blackness. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/blackness/light
Blackness & Light. N.p., 2016. Web. 14 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/blackness/light>.
Light or Blackness. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/blackness/light.
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