Egyptian darkness, Erebus, blackishness, blackness, dark, darkishness, darkness, darkness visible, darksomeness, dead of night, duskiness, duskness, funereality, graveness, intense darkness, lightlessness, moonlessness, night, obscure, obscure darkness, obscurity, pitch-darkness, pitchy darkness, sadness, soberness, sobriety, somberness, starlessness, sunlessness, swarth, swartness, tenebrosity, tenebrousness, the palpable obscure, total darkness, velvet darkness

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