tenebrosity

English

Etymology

From Middle English tenebrosite, from Old French tenebrosité,[1][2] ultimately from Latin tenebrae (“darkness”). Compare Medieval Latin tenebrōsitas, French ténébrosité. By surface analysis, tenebrose +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /tɛnɪˈbɹɒsɪti/, /tɛnəˈbɹɒsɪti/
  • (US) IPA(key): /tɛnəˈbɹɑsəti/

Noun

tenebrosity (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being tenebrose or tenebrous.
    Synonyms: darkness, obscurity, gloom
    • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 376:
      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.

Translations

References
  1. John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “tenebrosity”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
  2. “tenebrọ̄sitẹ̄, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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