- black, blackness - the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
--1 is a kind of achromatic color, achromatic colour
--1 has particulars:coal black, ebony, jet black, pitch black, sable, soot black - total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, black - total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night"
--2 is a kind of dark, darkness