Caliginosity vs. Darkness — What's the Difference?

Darkness; obscurity.

Darkness, the polar opposite of brightness, is understood as a lack of illumination or an absence of visible light. Human vision is unable to distinguish color in conditions of either high brightness or very low brightness.

Darkness.

Lacking or having very little light

Lacking brightness

Reflecting only a small fraction of incident light; tending toward black

Served without milk or cream

Being or having a complexion that is not light in color.

Sullen or threatening

Characterized by gloom or pessimism; dismal or bleak

Being or characterized by morbid or grimly satiric humor.

Unknown or concealed; mysterious

Lacking enlightenment, knowledge, or culture

Evil in nature or effect; sinister

Morally corrupt; vicious

Having richness or depth

Not giving performances; closed

(Linguistics) Pronounced with the back of the tongue raised toward the velum. Used of the sound (l) in words like full.

Absence of light.

A place having little or no light.

Night; nightfall

A deep hue or color.

Darks Pieces of laundry having a dark color.

(uncountable) The state of being dark; lack of light; the absolute or comparative absence of light.

(uncountable) The state or quality of reflecting little light, of tending to a blackish or brownish color.

(uncountable) Gloom; gloominess; depression.

(countable) The product of being dark.

(uncountable) Lack of understanding or compassion; spiritual or mental blindness.

(uncountable) Secrecy; concealment.

(uncountable) Lack of knowledge; obscurity or meaning or intelligibility; the unknown.

(uncountable) Hell.

The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom.

A state of privacy; secrecy.

A state of ignorance or error, especially on moral or religious subjects; hence, wickedness; impurity.

Want of clearness or perspicuity; obscurity; as, the darkness of a subject, or of a discussion.

A state of distress or trouble.

Absence of light or illumination

An unilluminated area;

Absence of moral or spiritual values;

An unenlightened state;

Having a dark or somber color

A swarthy complexion