In Penzance and Falmouth, the total eclipse will last for 2 minutes 2 seconds. The longest period of sunlessness will be in Romania, at 2 mins 23 seconds.
The honor she paid the honesty of these women helped her much to pity the sunlessness of their existence, and the poor end for which they lived.
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sunlessness — See sunless. * * * … Universalium
sunlessness — sunˈlessness noun • • • Main Entry: ↑sun … Useful english dictionary
sunless — sunlessly, adv. sunlessness, n. /sun lis/, adj. 1. lacking sun or sunlight; dark: a sunless room. 2. dismal; gloomy; cheerless: a sunless smile. [1580 90; SUN + LESS] * * * … Universalium
Erebus — Synonyms and related words: Aides, Aidoneus, Cerberus, Charon, Cora, Despoina, Dis, Dis pater, Egyptian darkness, Hades, Hel, Kore, Loki, Minos, Orcus, Osiris, Persephassa, Persephone, Pluto, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhadamanthus, Satan, blackness … Moby Thesaurus
dark — Synonyms and related words: Egyptian darkness, Erebus, Gothicism, Stygian, ableptical, abominable, abstruse, adiaphanous, age of ignorance, amaurotic, amoral, amorphous, amorphousness, apocalyptic, arcane, arrant, atramentous, atrocious, bad,… … Moby Thesaurus
dead of night — Synonyms and related words: Egyptian darkness, Erebus, awful silence, blackness, dark, darkness, darkness visible, dead, deathlike silence, golden silence, hush, hush of night, inaudibility, intense darkness, lightlessness, lucid stillness, lull … Moby Thesaurus
night — Synonyms and related words: Egyptian darkness, Erebus, all the time, all night, blackness, ceaselessly, charcoal, coal, continually, continuously, crow, dark, dark of night, darkness, darkness visible, dead of night, dusk, ebon, ebony, endlessly … Moby Thesaurus
obscurity — Synonyms and related words: Egyptian darkness, Erebus, a nobody, a nothing, abstruseness, adiaphanousness, ambiguousness, amorphia, amorphism, amorphousness, anarchy, anonymity, arcanum, blackness, bleariness, blobbiness, blur, blurriness,… … Moby Thesaurus
swarthiness — Synonyms and related words: Egyptian darkness, Erebus, blackishness, blackness, dark, darkishness, darkness, darkness visible, darksomeness, dead of night, duskiness, duskness, funereality, graveness, intense darkness, lightlessness, moonlessness … Moby Thesaurus
sun — noun 1》 (also Sun) the star round which the earth orbits. ↘any similar star, with or without planets. 2》 the light or warmth received from the sun. 3》 literary a day or a year. verb (suns, sunning, sunned) (sun oneself) sit or lie in the sun … English new terms dictionary
