Darkness and Setting

Darkness

Darkness noun - A time or place of little or no light.

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Setting and darkness are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Setting" instead a noun "Darkness".

Nearby Words: dark, darken, darkly, darkish

Setting noun - The circumstances, conditions, or objects by which one is surrounded.

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Darkness and setting are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Darkness" instead a noun "Setting".

Nearby Words: set, settling, setter

old	old darkness	old setting
full	full darkness	full setting
similar	similar darkness	similar setting
normal	normal darkness	normal setting
Other adjectives: natural, complete, actual, real, dark, grim, magical, overall, western.

Averted in Paranormal Activity as everything shot in darkness was filmed using the night setting on the camera.

Source: Hollywood Darkness
In the Mystara setting of Dungeons & Dragons, the Immortal (Immortals being the D&D functional equivalent of AD&D's gods) Nyx was the Entropic Immortal of darkness, night, and the undead.

Source: The Sacred Darkness
The setting also has a strong association between darkness and demons, which are portrayed as writhing, moving darkness.

Source: Dark Is Evil

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