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English
Etymology
From blackened + -ness.
Noun
blackenedness (uncountable)
- (rare) The quality, state, or condition of being blackened, as:
1941, Hearings, page 564:Our hearts are torn for those across the sea,
The blackenedness and all the pain they stand, […]
2000, Jalaluddin Rumi, Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion:There's no sheen. If you write once on a sheet of paper, it can be read, but when you scribble over and over, the script becomes unreadable. Dip yourself in the acid that cleans copper. Lay out your blackenedness clearly." […]
2014, J.P. Goss, Eclectia, volume 1:The western coals can only stare
Coming hence, a blackenedness
Whose colors echo back and forth
From ebon South
To eerie North
There it seeks to call it: “mine” […]
- (often, especially) Due to charring.
- Synonym: charredness
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