tenebrosity
nounUK /tɛnɪˈbɹɒsɪti/ · US /tɛnəˈbɹɑsəti/
Etymology From Middle English tenebrosite, from Old French tenebrosité, ultimately from Latin tenebrae (“darkness”). Compare Medieval Latin tenebrōsitas, French ténébrosité. By surface analysis, tenebrose + -ity.
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The state or quality of being tenebrose or tenebrous.
- This tenebrosity of the interior, he proceeded to say, hath not been illumined by the wit of the septuagint nor so much as mentioned for the Orient from on high which brake hell’s gates visited a darkness that was foraneous.1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 376: