shadowiness

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body

From shadowy + -ness.

Dusk began to gather, the last birds in that dense shadowiness of trees had ceased to sing. — The best British short stories of 1922, Unknown
There seemed a certain shadowiness in his conception of their future existence together as man and wife: something which he recognised as an interior voice chimed in, from time to time, with provoking interrogations, mostly unanswerable. — Robert Orange: Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange, John Oliver Hobbes

shade, shadiness

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