The lightning lit up the inky blackness. 闪电照亮了一片漆黑。
blackness
[ noun ]
the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
<noun.attribute>
total absence of light
<noun.state> they fumbled around in total darkness in the black of night
Blackness \Black"ness\, n. The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness.
They're darker now than blackness. --Donne.
In the case of Judge Thomas, blackness ought to be regarded the same way.
I look into the inky blackness of the stuffy chamber.
In the nighttime blackness of a South Florida swamp, a man fired a pistol at two glowing, green eyes, killing a lion-sized animal.
The occasional office building or hotel running on emergency generators stood out in the blackness.
"It's a steady descent into bleakness and blackness," said Julia McKenzie, who plays the witch in the 1987 Sondheim-James Lapine musical opening Sept. 25 at London's Phoenix Theater.
During the pope's only other visit to Peru, in February 1985, Maoist Shining Path guerrillas caused a widespread power outage, plunging Lima's airport into blackness as the pope's plane was landing.