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Sombreness

Definition: Sombreness

Sombreness

Noun

1. A state of partial or total darkness; "he struck a match to dispell the gloom".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sombreness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)


Synonyms: Sombreness

Synonyms: gloom (n), somberness (n). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Sombreness

"Sombreness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sombreness" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%8124,375

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Sombreness

Language Translations for "sombreness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏كآبة (bleakness, damp, dejection, depression, desolation, despondency, dreariness, gauntness, gloom, gloominess, grief, low spirits, melancholy, moodiness, mope, sadness, sorrow, spleen), ‏عتمة (dark, darkness, dimness, shade), ‏ظلمة (darkness, gloominess, mirk, murk, night, opacity, shadow, umbra). (various references)

   

French

  

obscurité, caractère sombre. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μελαγχολία (despondency, megrims, melancholia, melancholy, sadness), ζοφερότησ (duskiness), ζοφερότητα (duskiness). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ק"רות (bleakness, darkness, duskiness, gauntness, gloom, murk). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

komorság (dimness, dismalness, gloominess, glumness, sullenness), sötétség (blackness, dark, darkness, depths, dusk, gloom, mirk, murk, murkiness, obscurity, the dark), mogorvaság (crossness, gruffness, moroseness, severity, sulk, sulkiness, sullenness, sullens, surliness, tartness). (various references)

   

Italian

  

tristezza (dejection, dreariness, gloom, gloominess, lugubriousness, sadness, somberness, sorrow, unhappiness), oscurit (background, blackness, dark, darkness, dimness, duskiness, eclipse, gloom, gloominess, mirk, murk, murkiness, night, obscureness, obscurity, opacity, shade, somberness), malinconia (gloom, hump, melancholia, melancholiness, melancholy, miserable, pensiveness, sadness, somberness, spleen), l'essere scuro (somberness), buio (black, bleak, dark, darkness, dismal, dreary, gloom, gloominess, murkiness, night, somber, somberness, sombre). (various references)

   

Manx

  

groamid (blues, cheerlessness, dejection, disagreeableness, gloom, gloominess, glumness, grimness, ill temper, joylessness, moodiness, moping, moroseness, sternness, sullenness). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ombrenesssay

   

Romanian

  

întunecare (darkening, darkness, dusk, gloominess, lower). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

lo sombrío (dimness, dinginess). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

loşluk (darkness, dimness, gloominess, obscurity, somberness), koyuluk (consistency, darkness, deep, deepness, intenseness, intension, intensity, saturation, somberness, stiffness, thickness), kasvet (cheerlessness, depression, doldrums, dolefulness, dreariness, gloom, gloominess, heaviness, heebie-jeebies, murk, somberness, sullenness), karanlık (clouded, dark, darkling, darkness, deep, deepness, dun, dusky, foggy, funny, funny peculiar, gloom, gloominess, gloomy, inkiness, murk, murky, night, obscuration, obscure, obscurity, pitchy, shadow, shadowy, shady, somber, somberness, sombre, tenebrous, unlit), hüzün (blues, doldrums, dole, dolefulness, dreariness, gloom, gloominess, melancholy, ruefulness, sadness, shadow, somberness, spleen). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự tối (somberness), sự mờ mịt (somberness), sự ảm đạm tính u sầu (somberness), tính bu"n rười rượi (somberness), tính ủ rũ (somberness). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Sombreness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: somberness.

Words within the letters "b-e-e-m-n-o-r-s-s-s"

-1 letter: embossers, soberness.

-2 letters: embosser, embosses, soreness.

-3 letters: boreens, enrobes, moreens, mossers, senores, sensors, sermons.

-4 letters: bermes, besoms, boners, boreen, bosses, bromes, broses, embers, emboss, enrobe, eroses, menses, mesnes, mesons, messes, moreen, mosser, mosses, nesses, obsess, ombers, ombres, semens, senors, senses, sensor, sermon, sneers, snores, sobers, somber, sombre.

-5 letters: beers, benes, berme, berms, besom, boner, bones.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-e-m-n-o-r-s-s-s"
 

+2 letters: morbidnesses, sombernesses.

 

+4 letters: cumbersomeness, cumbrousnesses, umbrageousness.

 

+5 letters: memorablenesses, removablenesses, troublesomeness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Sombreness


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6F 6D 62 72 65 6E 65 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    ---    --    -...    .-.    .    -.    .    ...    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101111 01101101 01100010 01110010 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#111 &#109 &#98 &#114 &#101 &#110 &#101 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006F 006D 0062 0072 0065 006E 0065 0073 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53817968847180718585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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