darkness

/dɑrk.nəs/

意味: 暗闇

例文: June’s chocolate stash was hidden in darkness.
　　  ジューンのチョコの隠し場所は暗闇の中だった。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: complete darkness(完全な暗闇), total darkness(全体的な暗闇), pitch darkness(真っ暗)

定義: 暗闇や暗さのこと。光がない状態を指します。夜や電気が消えたときなどに感じることが多いです。視界が悪くなり、物が見えにくくなります。

darknessは約50,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: absence of light or illumination
Noun: an unilluminated area
Noun: absence of moral or spiritual values
Noun: an unenlightened state
Noun: having a dark or somber color
Noun: a swarthy complexion

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The darkness hid the path from my sight.(暗闇が道を見えなくした。)
She feared the darkness of the empty room.(彼女は空っぽの部屋の暗闇を恐れた。)
Darkness fell quickly as the sun disappeared.(太陽が沈むと暗闇がすぐに訪れた。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: he moved off into the darkness
Noun: the powers of darkness
Noun: he was in the dark concerning their intentions
Noun: his lectures dispelled the darkness

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): dark, darkness, duskiness, iniquity, shadow, swarthiness, wickedness

Antonyms(反意語): light, lightness

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): complexion, condition, illumination, scene, unenlightenment, value

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): absolution, anchorage, astigmatism, atmosphere, atonicity, automation, brutalization, celibacy, circumstance, climate, comfort, condemnation, curvature, danger, dark, darkness, decline, deification, despair, difficulty, discomfort, dishabille, disorderliness, diversification, diversity, dominance, dryness, economic condition, emptiness, encapsulation, ennoblement, environmental condition, exoneration, eye condition, facilitation, field of honor, financial condition, frizz, fruition, fullness, guilt, hairlessness, health, homelessness, hopefulness, hospitalization, hyalinization, identification, immunity, impaction, impropriety, improvement, impurity, iniquity, innocence, ionization, irradiation, lactosuria, laxness, leakiness, light, lightness, lividness, lubrication, malady, mechanization, mode, motivation, mummification, mutism, nakedness, need, niche, noise conditions, nomination, normality, orderliness, paleness, participation, physical condition, place, polarization, prepossession, preservation, prognathism, protuberance, psychological state, purity, regularization, reinstatement, repair, ruddiness, rustication, rustiness, safety, sallowness, sanitary condition, saturation, scandalization, serration, silence, situation, ski conditions, soundness, stage, standardization, stigmatism, submission, subservience, susceptibility, tawniness, tension, tilth, unsoundness, unsusceptibility, urbanization, vacuolization, venue, virginity, way, wetness, whiteness

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): blackout, foulness, night, semidarkness, total darkness

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: dark, dusky, shadow, swarthy, wicked

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: formal

Usage Context: general

Grammatical Notes:

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞): ness

Exam Level

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Holes

Movies(映画):

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: anger, fear, negative, sadness