英和和英

名詞

blackenedness (uncountable)

1. (rare) The quality, state, or condition of being blackened, as:
   • 1941, Hearings, page 564:

     Our hearts are torn for those across the sea,
     The blackenedness and all the pain they stand, […]

   • 2000, Jalaluddin Rumi, Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion:

     There's no sheen. If you write once on a sheet of paper, it can be read, but when you scribble over and over, the script becomes unreadable. Dip yourself in the acid that cleans copper. Lay out your blackenedness clearly." […]

   • 2014, J.P. Goss, Eclectia, volume 1:

     The western coals can only stare
     Coming hence, a blackenedness
     Whose colors echo back and forth
     From ebon South
     To eerie North
     There it seeks to call it: “mine” […]

   1. (often, especially) Due to charring.

      Synonym: charredness

等位語

• blackness
• blackishness

参考

• browning
• doneness